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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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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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.

BrusselsJournal


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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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