Sunday, January 31, 2010

The Lame Stream Media fails again


Why I call the Lame Stream Media the Lame Stream Media.

This from today's "Meet The Press." The subject is trying KSM and other terrorists in New York City.

(Axlerod).....Under those protocols, the attorney general decided to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed back to New York to stand trial for his crime for the murder of 3,000 innocent people, and he wanted to do it near the, the site of, of the crime itself. He wanted to do what the Bush administration did over and over and over again


Now I think it is correct to say that if Bush did not exist the Obamie camp would be in deep doo doo. And beyond that I think it is correct to say that none of the terrorists tried by Bush and Clinton were captured outside the US.

Yet Gregory just let it slide on by. Way to to David! Skip one for your Leader!

Bottom line. To the elites of this country terrorism and a QuickiMart robbery are one and the same.


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Pssst... Filthy pictures..... ?


Just when you think things can’t get any more bizarre with the IPCC, having just learned that the IPPC 2007 report used magazine articles for references, head of the IPCC, Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, provides comedy gold. According to the UK Telegraph, he’s just released what they describe as a “smutty” romance novel, Return to Almora laced with steamy sex, lots of sex. Oh, and Shirley MacLaine.


Well, after all, he is the Guru of man made global warming......

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Friday, January 29, 2010

How the Republicans should meet with the President.


I watched Obamie and the Repubs today. It was a masterful lecture by the Prez to a bunch of dummies who allowed him to get away with saying what he wanted to say when he wanted to say it.

I offer the following suggestions.

When the Prez refers to you by your first name it is okay to remind him him that you are "Congressman Jones" and expect to be called by that name.

In other words, quit twisting like a bunch of puppies when he says, "Bob, you be stupid," or some other similar comment. You are a Congressman. Act like it.

Ask simple direct questions. Don't give a speech on the evils of mankind and then close with a two word question. Try this.

"Will you support an across the board tax cut? Please limit your answer to yes or no."

And when he starts rambling, interrupt and repeat the question.

If the session is about jobs, nix the off subject questions.

If he gets upset, let him. His snotty persona will, if you give him the opportunity, show itself to your advantage. Pay no attention to the Lame Stream Media if they start to whine you are being disrespectful. Your friends and Independents won't care and to hell with your enemies.

And I find it amazing that I had to lecture you folks on such basics.


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Obama quote of the day for 1-29-10


What Washington needs is adult supervision.


Even a broke clock is right twice a day.

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Last Call for 1-28-10


Ten cent cotton and twenty cent meat. How in the world can a poor man eat?


Shoe? You had two? Are you sure?


Yeah, this was in San Francisco!


That tickles!


Well, you got what you wanted.


Match made in heaven. One is full of wind. The other is looking for wind.


And the answer is??

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KSM to be tried outside New York


The White House ordered the Justice Department on Thursday night to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.

The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere" and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.

"It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that's too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood," Bloomberg told reporters.

"There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City."


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Dear New York:

Look, I like you a lot, even if you did give Obamie a huge number of votes.

And I want to know that this has nothing to do with all the crooks and cheats on Wall Street that have gotten rich off our money.

It's just that, well, how can I say it......

How about, NIMBY?

He's your problem, not mine. Your newspaper, the New York Times and your Senator who became Obamie's SecState and your attitude in general wanted KSM out of GITMO.

Well, as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for.

Like in Obamie... you got what you wanted.

Now live with it or send KSM back to GITMO and a military tribunal.

Yours in the hope that you will see the light,

Poker Player

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Global warming forecasts wrong


ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — A new estimate of the feedback between temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration has been derived from a comprehensive comparison of temperature and CO2 records spanning the past millennium.

The result, which is based on more than 200,000 individual comparisons, implies that the amplification of current global warming by carbon-cycle feedback will be significantly less than recent work has suggested.

In this week's Nature, David Frank and colleagues extend this empirical approach by comparing nine global-scale temperature reconstructions with CO2 data from three Antarctic ice cores over the period ad 1050-1800. The authors derive a likely range for the feedback strength of 1.7-21.4 p.p.m.v. CO2 per degree Celsius, with a median value of 7.7.

The researchers conclude that the recent estimates of 40 p.p.m.v. CO2 per degree Celsius can be excluded with 95% confidence, suggesting significantly less amplification of current warming.

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Translation: "Our warming forecasts were wrong."

As if we didn't know that.




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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Commentator's Comment Award for 1-27-10



This is from a comment by "Traveler" on a Dianna West article concerning the winding down of the Iraqi war and what the future holds. It's conclusions aren't pretty but then we aren't dealing with "pretty." They are also politically incorrect but actually correct.

Seeing where you come from and from which viewpoint you are speaking I can only agree with you.

But allow me a few remarks.

The Islamic culture as such doesn't exist, it's the Arabic or Persian culture which you are confronting.

Now when we say Arabic culture we are stretching the meaning of the word, but for lack of a better one we shall use it here.

The Arabic culture has never been able to grow out of the tribal and "main family" system. In that context the tribal chief or the chief of the extended family is the absolute boss.

Going to an Arab country with the declared aim of installing democracy is ridiculous, they don't even understand the concept.

Further, since communication is mainly verbal for the illiterate population, a foreign power is totally dependant on the local verbal translators.

This is an impossible situation.

Let's go back to the original aims of this war: overthrowing a dictator and installing a safe democracy where there is no place for terrorism.

You have overthrown the dictator and his state structure. This left a vacuum in which terrorism installed itself.

You created an embryo of a sort of democratic structure in which the tribal and big family chiefs immediately installed themselves, thus coming
back to the tribal system.

As in the good old days those tribes and families continue to murder their opponents while the terrorists slip in between the mazes and create havoc with everybody, using just those tribal feuds and inflaming them.

The Americans meanwhile are trying to fight terrorists in a "humane way", according to international conventions. This is not working of course because the terrorists have no fear of "humane" methods.

Further the terrorists have a free hand with the local tribes and families since they put themselves under the banner of Islam.

The only way to fight these terrorists is with the help of the local tribes and families.

Any Iraqui member of a terrorist group is responsible for the total expropriation of all property from his family, the family is responsible for their familymembers. Any Iraqui harboring terrorists is responsible with his whole family and the whole family loses its property and pays for the damage and bloodmoney of any victims.

Any tribal chief is responsible for terrorist attacks on his territory.

Inhumane? Sure for Western societies who don't allow terrorists and don't harbor terrorists in their houses, for an Arabic society the joint responsability of a family is normal and applies througout their history.

The fear to lose the whole family property should be bigger than the fear of the terrorists.

Further, any suicide bomber should be identified and published with photographs and the adresses of his family members so that his family could undergo the revenge of the bloodfeud by the families of the victims of the terrorist attack.

Suicide bombers families are supported with money and pensions after the death of the suicide bomber. When they know that their family will be killed because of bloodfeud after their terrorist attack they will be less interested in the 70 virgins.

This fight is now and has to be won, do it in their own way with their own weapons.


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Hillary to miss Obama's SOTU




WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is missing President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in order to attend a conference in London, but she is not the only absentee Cabinet member.


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I'm not watching it either. I have a health problem. My stomach couldn't take anymore video of him lying like a trooper with his chin tilted up and to the Left.




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Obama refers to himself 132 times in one speech


Now that may not be a record.... but it sure is a good average.....

This man is a narcissist. The world revolves around him and him only. Anything that doesn't do that is rejected by him and angers him.

Impeachment is the only answer.


Video link to speech.

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Lies, damn lies and politics


Never argue with an idiot.

One of the more enduring attacks on Bush by the Lefties of this world is over the fact that Bush indicated a strong desire to capture or kill Osoma Bin Ladin – OBL.

All Presidents are prone to making dramatic statements. FDR said, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” And in pursuit of that tried his best to pack the Supreme Court.

Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Of course he didn’t follow that with an acknowledgement that there was no missile gap and that he had known so all during the campaign.

Nixon said, “Your President is not a crook.” But he didn’t tell us what he knew about the Watergate break in and when he knew it.

Reagan said, “……tear down that wall,” but didn’t mention that he had to do some things in Central America that the fellow travelers and the Left would try and impeach him over.

Then George HW Bush said, “Watch my lips. No new taxes.” And of course he did and of course that cost him his second term.

Clinton opined that “I have not had sex with that woman.” It took a blue dress and Congressional investigation and being impeached for the country to know that was a lie but the Left stoutly maintained that he had not, and besides, if he had it was between husband and wife and private. Of course an Arkansas judge stripped him of his license to practice law for lying…..that’s what perjury is… under oath.

Obamie still has a ways to go but he has already been called a liar in a most public way by a Congressman, and had that proven by his own staff. He has made numerous claims over taxes that are lies and we all know that. His other infamous “lies” concern his visits to 57 states, the self-identified terrorist William Ayers being “just a guy in the neighborhood,” and then he had his uncles serving all over Europe and liberating concentration camps. And lest we forget, he sat through 20 years of sermons by the Black Liberation preacher, Wright, and never heard enough to become angry about the cursing of America to get up and leave.

Simply put, whether or not it is a lie, promise or a misstatement, is largely in the mind of the reader.

As for George W Bush, it took the anti-war, anti-Israel, pro Palestinian Left only days to declare that “Bush lied and men died.” This started during 2002 during the first attacks on the Taliban who were harboring OBL and other al Qaeda members and came to full flower at the start of the invasion of Iraq. It became such a well known social phenomenon that the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome,” “BDS,” was born and became widely used to describe the out of control mouthing of the Left.

The problem for the Left is that when challenged they can’t prove Bush lied. And in fact the Senate passed the resolution to go to war with huge majorities in both Houses of Congress.

Iraq war resolution.

And many on the Left have even claimed that during his 2003 SOTU speech Bush claimed that Iraq had purchased yellow cake from Niger. This despite the fact that Bush had noted that the English had said that Iraq had TRIED, not purchased, to do so, a fact confirmed by Joe Wilson, retried State Department employee who went to Niger to investigate, in his debriefing by the CIA.

So basically the Left is left with the fact that OBL may, or may not be alive and that Bush is responsible.

Why did Bush do this? Well, according to the Left, because he rushed off to attack Iraq.

Of course the fact of the matter is that Bush pulled back on OBL because he had escaped into the high mountains on the Afghanistan – Pakistan border and the cost in military lives would not be worth the net gain of capturing and or killing him in an undeniable “he’s dead” manner.

Think about that. Here you had a President who had pledged to kill or capture OBL and who was facing a difficult election in a few years. OBL’s scalp on full display would have been a tremendous vote getter. The temptation to tell the military, “At all costs,” must have been unbelievably strong.

But again facts and history gets in the way.

One of the prime problems Clinton faced was the lack of cooperation by Pakistan. Clinton had not been able to solve that problem for two years. As Clarke, Clinton’s NSA said:

Second point is that the Clinton administration had a strategy in place, effectively dating from 1998. And there were a number of issues on the table since 1998. And they remained on the table when that administration went out of office — issues like aiding the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, changing our Pakistan policy -- uh, changing our policy toward Uzbekistan. And in January 2001, the incoming Bush administration was briefed on the existing strategy. They were also briefed on these series of issues that had not been decided on in a couple of years.

Clarke interview link

And while Bush was able to solve part of the Pakistan problem, it still remains today. To a d degree, Obama is as restrained as Bush was. He does have the advantage of better technology, the world has not stood still in the past 8 years, but he still doesn’t haven’t have carte blanche to go into the tribal region and do as he pleases.

So Bush was faced with the fact that OBL could slip back and forth across the borders. Plus, to kill or capture him we would have to chase him from village to village from cave to cave.

What that meant was that we would have to do it with ground forces with very limited air support. Why? Flying down high altitude valleys with mountains on both sides makes the helicopter an unwilling participant in a shooting gallery.

Ask the Soviets how well that worked out.

High altitude bombing, even with smart bombs, is not that effective against well concealed caves and other hardened targets.

So it goes back to ground troops fighting with essentially the same weapons as al Qaeda. Rifles, machine guns and rockets.

That’s a formula for disaster. Ask the Soviets.

So Bush decided that OBL was marginalized, on the run and not worth the cost in lives of our military.

Wise choice.

Too bad the Left either doesn’t care about the cost or doesn’t understand. Or in many cases, both.










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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Poker rules


I have been known to, as they say, take a hand or two. And the one thing that I admire about poker is its complete lack of a uniform rule structure.

But then it's an American game.

The following happened a few years ago.

The game was $20-$40 Texas Holdem and the guy in the big blind had a Jack Ten of Spades, we later learned. Positions 3, 4 and 5 folded. Position 6 raised, making the bet $40. Position 7 tossed in a $100 dollar bill and to my weary eyes gave a thumbs up indicating he was raising, which would have made the bet $60.

Since I was not in the game I confess to not been 100% focused on the action. The dealer said nothing and positions 8,9, 10 and 1 folded. Position 2, the Big Blind, thought for a few minutes and tossed in his hand.

Position 6 said nothing and the dealer gave position 7 $60 change and started to deal.

The big blind immediately pointed out that position 7 had raised the bet, commenting that he would have called if it had only been $20 instead of what he thought....$60 or a $40 call. (Remember the big blind already had $20 in the pot.)

I'll spare you the bickering, some of it profane and pointed. Suffice to say the dealer said position 7 had said nothing and he had not seen the "thumbs up" move.

The floorman was summoned and agreed with the dealer. The hand was dealt and the big blind would have won if he had played.

Some thoughts.

I don't know if position 7 was seeking an advantage through fake hand movements or not but I am fairly sure he indicated a raise and then changed his mind when the big blind folded without him having to put the raise in.

The flop, turn and river was 10, Jack, 4, 8, 4. Position 7 had Ace King, a hand that you want to raise and get it down to as few as players as possible. He was also a tricky player with lots of moves so I think he was seeking an advantage.

The big blind would have won the hand with 10's and Jacks.

The floorman noted that house rules said that when the bill was put in the pot without saying anything it was just a call. Maybe so but it caused a lot of confusion and ill will.

You can argue that dealer should have asked position 7 his intent but given given the house rules there was no reason for him to do so.

I like my solution better.

No cash on the table. If the player runs out of chips the game stops until change is made. There's no confusion between a call and a raise if chips are used.




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Switzerland: Minaret referendum was a vote against the spread of Islam


According to a new analysis the supporters of the minaret ban weren't voting against Muslims, they were voting against the spread of Islam. It doesn't matter whether Islam is compatible with Swiss culture or, as Tariq Ramadan claims, 'Islam is European'. I think this supports my view that the bottom line here is that the Swiss want Switzerland to be Swiss. They don't mind Muslims living there, but they do not want Muslim culture taking over.


Gee, who would think that a country doesn't want to be taken over?

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Is that a lizard in your pocket?



Or are you just glad to see me?

And if you find that weird:

The geckos may have been worth 2,000 euros ($2,800) each on the European market, he noted.


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Some CNN VP is thinking about how to get his window open


Oprah Named Favorite TV Personality; Glenn Beck Is No. 2

New to the list and debuting at number 2 is Fox News' personality, Glenn Beck, whose rabble-rousing ways have endeared him to Republicans, conservatives,and independents, according to the Harris results. Dropping to No. 3 from No. 1 last year is Jay Leno, whose descent in the poll predated the NBC-'Tonight Show'-Leno-Conan O'Brien debacle. We'd like to see where he ranks now.


And Rosie is??????

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Obama quote of the day for 1-26-10




A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'


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The problem is this. In the real world of war a compromise is not possible. That is if you want to win. The former should be self evident. The latter is not known for certain when it comes to Obamie and his relations with the Islamic radical world.

Especially when he fails to recognize this:

REPORTER: Mr. Bin Ladin, will the end of the United States' presence in Saudi Arabia, their withdrawal, will that end your call for jihad against the United States and against the US ?

BIN LADIN: So the driving-away jihad against the US does not stop with its withdrawal from the Arabian peninsula, but rather it must desist from aggressive intervention against Muslims in the whole world.


March 1997 interview with bin Ladin by CNN's Peter Arnett.


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Monday, January 25, 2010

Obama quote of the day for 1-25-10


Obama proclaim in his interview on ABCNEWS that "THE SAME THING THAT SWEPT SCOTT BROWN INTO OFFICE, SWEPT ME INTO OFFICE. PEOPLE ARE (IN) ANGER AND ARE FRUSTRATION NOT BECAUSE WHAT HAS HAPPEN IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO YEARS BUT WHAT'S HAPPEN IN THE LAST 8YEARS."


"Now if we had some ham, we'd have some ham and eggs if we had some eggs."

You know, the stupidity of Obamie just gets plainer every day.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Last call for 1-24-10



Larry P sends this along:

On August 18, 2009, even though President Obama is against off shore drilling for our country, he signed an executive order to loan 2 Billion of our taxpayers dollars to a Brazilian Oil Exploration Company (which is the 8th largest company in the entire world) to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil ! The oil that comes from this operation is for the sole purpose and use of China and NOT THE USA ! Now here's the real clincher...the Chinese government is under contract to purchase all the oil that this oil field will produce, which is hundreds of millions of barrels of oil.

We have absolutely no gain from this transaction whatsoever!

Wait, it gets more interesting.

Guess who is the largest individual stockholder of this Brazilian Oil Company and who would benefit most from this? It is American BILLIONAIRE, George Soros, who was one of President Obama's most generous financial supporter during his campaign.

Below is the Wall street Journal article to confirm this. Link WSJ.


Is anyone actually surprised?

Not that I cared much either way but that pass interference call that set the Saints up for the win was an uncatchable ball.... Yet the Zebras made the call right there in front of millions and I am sure the league will defend it..

Oh well, the line was 3 and 1/2 so the Saints didn't cover even with the help of that call and a generous spot and a gimme on a reception that could have been called incomplete.....Must have been Bush's fault... All the ghosts of the people who died in the dome... (sarcasm alert)

And my condolences to Kdog. Payton and his helpers not only beat the Jets but covered the spread.

Sorry guy.

My wife tells me she heard that cell phone use helps prevent Alzheimer's disease... I guess the brain cancer rots out the impacted part.

I was driving along the other night at a cruise controlled 70 when Smokey blew by me doing about 90 or more. The highway was empty going my way and fairly flat so I was able to see the guy exit about a mile in front of me and come back around and immediately start pursuing a car on the opposite side...flashing flights and the whole deal.

And here I thought the police was supposed to obey the speed limits unless in pursuit of a criminal...silly me, eh?

Hugo Chavez says we have an earthquake machine... No Hugo, that's just Danny Glover caterwauling..

Turn off the lights on the way out... and lock the door.

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Obama quote of the day for 1-24-10


People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.


I think we have heard that plea from Germany before. Say about 80 years ago.

Shall we speculate?

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Haiti has third major shake..

Hmmmmmm... Maybe Pat Robertson does know something....


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Act Like A Lady, etc and etc.



This was the mess left by Obamie's inauguration hoodoo a year ago.......
Think it told us what was coming???????



Can anybody tell me why all the dudes in TV commercials need a shave?

Come on ladies. Would you go out with someone who looks like they never heard of Gillette? I mean nice car, good looking woman and a Mr. Scruff.

I bet they never learned to wash behind their ears and don't shine the backs of their shoes........

Oh, did I tell the corps paying the bill that I think the condition of the guy reflects the condition of their products?


Can anyone tell me why Obamie had to listen? Heck,if you share my values, you know them. I mean, doesn't the pic show all?



As a friend of mine said...

"Well Lady this, Senator Asswipe."




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