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Sunday, January 31, 2010
SNL saw the writing on the wall and was the first entertainment show to take pot shots at President Obama when no one else had the nerve. This is significant considering the show is part of the NBC universe where stations like MSNBC continue to sing Obama’s praises.
This Scott Brown sketch makes the statement that Scott Brown’s arrival to Washington changes ObamaWorld in a huge way.
Update: Video Back Up!
Scott Brown thought the piece was funny.
Via Memeorandum
Via National Review Online
From The Last Tradition
Saturday, January 30, 2010
As we enter the week before the Super Bowl, lets have a good laugh before the endless stories about Hurricane Katrina and the New Orleans Stains start rolling in.
Via You Tube
From The Last Tradition
In a stunning victory that exonerates the Bush Administration’s use of waterboarding that helped keep the nation safe since the 911 attacks, Newsweek reports that Bush lawyers who were targeted by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama will be cleared of any wrong doing.
“Now the left is going to be upset: an upcoming Justice Department report from its ethics-watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), clears the Bush administration lawyers who authored the “torture” memos of professional-misconduct allegations.”
Full Article Click Here
This hits keep on coming for the House of O!
This probe should never have happened in the first place and if anyone deserves to be investigated, its President Obama himself for treating terrorists like the common criminal who robbed the liquor store last week.
When will that probe begin?
UPDATE: As of yet not many News outlets are running with this story. Uhmm, I wonder why. But, I wanted to get the reactions of Liberals. So below are the first 20 reactions on the Lib site Think Progress. Some of them are quite funny.
1.
WTF? This is down right depressing. I don’t think the Bush Administration will ever be brought to Justice. All the crimes, all the lies and all the deaths they are responsible for and they will walk away. I not only need a beer, I’m getting a shot of rum.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
2.StratRat says:
Sadly, not unexpected. Remember, we mustn’t ‘look back’. Obama thinks it would be rude to do so…
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
3.Bobwurst says:
Is Margolis a holdover from the bush years?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
4.Bobwurst says:
Here’s the answer to my question:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/27300
January 30th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
5.drhunt says:
This comment has been voted down. Click to read.
6.Bobwurst says:
drhunt says:
“Good torture”?!?!?!??!
Your logic is a shock to rational minds everywhere. Please crawl back under your rock.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
7.Badger says:
From the Emptywheel link:
Margolis is, however, also tied to the DOJ and its culture for over forty years, not to mention his service in upper management as Associate Attorney General during the Bush Administration when the overt acts of torture and justification by Margolis’ contemporaries and friends were committed.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
8.StratRat says:
We owe them a debt of gratitude.
We murdered many such ‘grateful’ detainees, didn’t we? Men we will never know if they were innocent or guilty. AmeriKKKa has a new fan in drhunt.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
9.Bozo The Neoclown says:
“Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this”
so, shitstain, i suppose you’re also alright with american personel being tortured. right, scumbag?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
10.Ape-Man says:
The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
11. Bozo The Neoclown says:
remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:35 pm
12.StratRat says:
Ape-Man says:
The Republican is an immature, socially inept individual. We might as well put children in charge of representing us.
Even children know better than to torture innocent men. Before Bush, we honored our treaty obligations. Now all of our fighting folks will be subject to the same torture we inflicted on others.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
13.Badger says:
drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious (sic) in order to be effective.
What the hell does that mean/???
Torture sure shocked the minds of impressionable Muslim youth, by turning them into avenging terrorists.
The Military readily acknowleges that all hell broke loose in Iraq after the News of Abu Ghraib hit the streets.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
14.P.D. says:
Bozo@11, Yeah really. And the SOB writes a opinion column in the Philly Inquierer too. So does good ole Ricky (Man on dog) Santorum. I think I’ll throw up now.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
15.paleolib says:
Margolis is needed on urgent business in Lubbock, TX or some other garden spot. Let’s bring some accountability back to some aspect of the federal government.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
16.StratRat says:
Bozo The Neoclown says:
remind me again why john yoo hasn’t been disbarred?
Because the America you and I read about in school is no longer the country it once was. It was once a proud and honorable country. The likes of Reagan, Bush, Cheney, Fox news destroyed what could have been a wonderful place to live.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
17. Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:
drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective. It need not be illegal to do this.
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
and which you think we should do to O’Keeffe and gang? water board or shock?
January 30th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
18.just the bleepn facts says:
drhunt says:
Good torture must shock the mind as well conscious in order to be effective.
You little nazi limpd*cks think there is “good torture”? And you wonder why people call for you to be put in mental hospitals?
drhunt says:
It need not be illegal to do this.
Because only the criminally insane believe this…
drhunt says:
Yoo and Bybee have constructed legal opinions that will stand the test of time.
Only if we become the fascist state you teabaggers are drooling for. I’m not banking on it, neither should you whackjob.
drhunt says:
They define the tools to be used in intelligence gathering. We owe them a debt of gratitude.
LOL! Torture has nothing to do with intelligence gathering, it’s about limpd*ck p*ssies like you needing to feel “powerful” in the face of being made to feel impotent. It’s nothing more than your psychotic insecurity and lunacy that drives it. We owe them a debt of gratitude for exposing what radical extremist lunatics make up the right wing mainstream!
January 30th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
19.P.D. says:
Strat@16, Now China is kicking our as* with green energy. And because Bush’s policies banning stem cell research, other countries have advanced in medicine as well.
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
20.just the bleepn facts says:
Pilotshark Sponsored by Beoing says:
So i know now that you could not way be a real doctor by that statement.
That would Doctor in the same way that “doctor J” is a doctor! ;)
January 30th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Via Newsweek
Via Memeorandum
From The Last Tradition
Friday, January 29, 2010
Strike two for the Left!
On the heels of Liberals going berserk over CBS decision to air a Pro-Life ad featuring college standout QB Tim Tebow, a second blow was dealt to the Libs when the Tiffany network decided to pass on ManCrush.com, a Gay Dating service for failing to meet broadcast standards.
Ain’t that a shame!
Speculation persist that the whole thing was a publicity stunt by the dating service known as ManCrush.com for knowing full well that the ad would be rejected in the first place and thusly gain free publicity for the effort.
However a spokesman for ManCrush.com said:
"We're 100% serious," said spokesperson Elissa Buchter. "We have the money to pay for it. If the ad showed a man and woman kissing it would have been accepted. You see ads for erectile dysfunction morning, noon and night. It's discriminatory that they wont show this."
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Liberals.
Via Fox News
Via The Hollywood Reporter
Via Slate.com
From The Last Tradition
When you’re Speaker of the House, you might as well take advantage of the perks, especially when it’s on the public dime.
Remember, the big stink about Nancy Pelosi’s insistence that she needed to be flown in a government version of a Boeing 757?
Well, you don’t think Nancy is gonaa fly without eating and drinking right?
No, way San Jose!
And she ain’t drinking any of the cheep stuff either.
We’re talking Maker's Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy Bailey's Irish Crème, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey … and Corona beer.
It’s party time whenever Party Pelosi hops on a plane!
Via WorldNet Daily
Via CBS News
From The Last Tradition
Big Government.Com
The government has now confirmed what has always been clear: No one tried to wiretap or bug Senator Landrieu’s office. Nor did we try to cut or shut down her phone lines. Reports to this effect over the past 48 hours are inaccurate and false.
As an investigative journalist, my goal is to expose corruption and lack of concern for citizens by government and other institutions, as I did last year when our investigations revealed the massive corruption and fraud perpetrated by ACORN. For decades, investigative journalists have used a variety of tactics to try to dig out and reveal the truth.
I learned from a number of sources that many of Senator Landrieu’s constituents were having trouble getting through to her office to tell her that they didn’t want her taking millions of federal dollars in exchange for her vote on the healthcare bill. When asked about this, Senator Landrieu’s explanation was that, “Our lines have been jammed for weeks.” I decided to investigate why a representative of the people would be out of touch with her constituents for “weeks” because her phones were broken. In investigating this matter, we decided to visit Senator Landrieu’s district office – the people’s office – to ask the staff if their phones were working.
On reflection, I could have used a different approach to this investigation, particularly given the sensitivities that people understandably have about security in a federal building. The sole intent of our investigation was to determine whether or not Senator Landrieu was purposely trying to avoid constituents who were calling to register their views to her as their Senator. We video taped the entire visit, the government has those tapes, and I’m eager for them to be released because they refute the false claims being repeated by much of the mainstream media.
It has been amazing to witness the journalistic malpractice committed by many of the organizations covering this story. MSNBC falsely claimed that I violated a non-existent “gag order.” The Associated Press incorrectly reported that I “broke in” to an office which is open to the public. The Washington Post has now had to print corrections in two stories on me. And these are just a few examples of inaccurate and false reporting. The public will judge whether reporters who can’t get their facts straight have the credibility to question my integrity as a journalist.
Via Big Government.Com
From The Last Tradition
Motivation: Truth
“While I don’t wish to speak too harshly about President Obama’s state of the union address, we live in challenging times that call for candor. I call them as I see them, and I hope my frank assessment will be taken as an honest effort to move this conversation forward.
Last night, the president spoke of the “credibility gap” between the public’s expectations of their leaders and what those leaders actually deliver. “Credibility gap” is a good way to describe the chasm between rhetoric and reality in the president’s address. The contradictions seemed endless.
He called for Democrats and Republicans to “work through our differences,” but last year he dismissed any notion of bipartisanship when he smugly told Republicans, “I won.”
He talked like a Washington “outsider,” but he runs Washington! He’s had everything any president could ask for – an overwhelming majority in Congress and a fawning press corps that feels tingles every time he speaks. There was nothing preventing him from pursuing “common sense” solutions all along. He didn’t pursue them because they weren’t his priorities, and he spent his speech blaming Republicans for the problems caused by his own policies.
He dared us to “let him know” if we have a better health care plan, but he refused to allow Republicans in on the negotiations or consider any ideas for real free market and patient-centered reforms. We’ve been “letting him know” our ideas for months from the town halls to the tea parties, but he isn’t interested in listening. Instead he keeps making the nonsensical claim that his massive trillion-dollar health care bill won’t increase the deficit.
Americans are suffering from job losses and lower wages, yet the president practically demanded applause when he mentioned tax cuts, as if allowing people to keep more of their own hard-earned money is an act of noblesse oblige. He claims that he cut taxes, but I must have missed that. I see his policies as paving the way for massive tax increases and inflation, which is the “hidden tax” that most hurts the poor and the elderly living on fixed incomes.
He condemned lobbyists, but his White House is filled with former lobbyists, and this has been a banner year for K Street with his stimulus bill, aka the Lobbyist’s Full Employment Act. He talked about a “deficit of trust” and the need to “do our work in the open,” but he chased away the C-SPAN cameras and cut deals with insurance industry lobbyists behind closed doors.
He spoke of doing what’s best for the next generation and not leaving our children with a “mountain of debt,” but under his watch this year, government spending is up by 22%, and his budget will triple our national debt.
He spoke of a spending freeze, but doesn’t he realize that each new program he’s proposing comes with a new price tag? A spending freeze is a nice idea, but it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem. We need a comprehensive examination of the role of government spending. The president’s deficit commission is little more than a bipartisan tax hike committee, lending political cover to raise taxes without seriously addressing the problem of spending.
He condemned bailouts, but he voted for them and then expanded and extended them. He praised the House’s financial reform bill, but where was Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in that bill? He still hasn’t told us when we’ll be getting out of the auto and the mortgage industries. He praised small businesses, but he’s spent the past year as a friend to big corporations and their lobbyists, who always find a way to make government regulations work in their favor at the expense of their mom & pop competitors.
He praised the effectiveness of his stimulus bill, but then he called for another one – this time cleverly renamed a “jobs bill.” The first stimulus was sold to us as a jobs bill that would keep unemployment under 8%. We now have double digit unemployment with no end in sight. Why should we trust this new “jobs bill”?
He talked about “making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development,” but apparently it’s still too tough for his Interior Secretary to move ahead with Virginia’s offshore oil and gas leases. If they’re dragging their feet on leases, how long will it take them to build “safe, clean nuclear power plants”? Meanwhile, he continued to emphasize “green jobs,” which require massive government subsidies for inefficient technologies that can’t survive on their own in the real world of the free market.
He spoke of supporting young girls in Afghanistan who want to go to school and young women in Iran who courageously protest in the streets, but where were his words of encouragement to the young girls of Afghanistan in his West Point speech? And where was his support for the young women of Iran when they were being gunned down in the streets of Tehran?
Despite speaking for an hour, the president only spent 10% of his speech on foreign policy, and he left us with many unanswered questions. Does he still think trying the 9/11 terrorists in New York is a good idea? Does he still think closing Gitmo is a good idea? Does he still believe in Mirandizing terrorists after the Christmas bomber fiasco? Does he believe we’re in a war against terrorists, or does he think this is just a global crime spree? Does he understand that the first priority of our government is to keep our country safe?
In his address last night, the president once again revealed that there’s a fundamental disconnect between what the American people expect from their government, and what he wants to deliver. He’s still proposing failed top-down big government solutions to our problems. Instead of smaller, smarter government, he’s taken a government that was already too big and supersized it.
Real private sector jobs are created when taxes are low, investment is high, and people are free to go about their business without the heavy hand of government. The president thinks innovation comes from government subsidies. Common sense conservatives know innovation comes from unleashing the creative energy of American entrepreneurs.
Everything seems to be “unexpected” to this administration: unexpected job losses; unexpected housing numbers; unexpected political losses in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey. True leaders lead best when confronted with the unexpected. But instead of leading us, the president lectured us. He lectured Wall Street; he lectured Main Street; he lectured Congress; he even lectured our Supreme Court Justices.
He criticized politicians who “wage a perpetual campaign,” but he gave a campaign speech instead of a state of the union address. The campaign is over, and President Obama now has something that candidate Obama never had: an actual track record in office. We now can see the failed policies behind the flowery words. If Americans feel as cynical as the president suggests, perhaps it’s because the audacity of his recycled rhetoric no longer inspires hope.
Real leadership requires results. Real hope lies in the ingenuity, generosity, and boundless courage of the American people whose voices are still not being heard in Washington.”
- Sarah Palin
Via Motivation: Truth
From The Last Tradition
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Obama’s State of the Union Hypocrisy About Foreign Money for Presidential Campaigns
0 comments Posted by ai at 10:59 AM
I was half listening to the President Obama’s 3rd State of the Union speech, er…my bad, his 1st State of the Union when I heard something I couldn’t believe he had the nerve to say:
I like to focus on these phrases in the speech.
“I believe will open the floodgates for special interests…
“…including foreign corporations. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.
Notice Obama’s use of the phrases “foreign corporations, and “foreign interests”.
Before I get to my main points, lets quickly dispose of Obama’s fears about the influence of foreign money in presidential campaigns.
Legal experts believe that Obama assertion that outside of the U.S. funds can have an disproportionate impact on our democracy is a wild over exaggeration and has no basis in law.
Uh, I thought Obama was constitutional law expert?
Oh well, so much for that.
Last night and this morning, when I looked at the news services and other blogs, all the focus was on Justice Alito having a Joe Wilson moment when Obama uttered his gripe that’s seen in the above video.
EVERBODY IS NISSING THE BIGGER POINT!
The reason I could’ve believe that Obama had the nerve to mention anything about foreign money in a presidential campaigns is because he benefited from googobs of foreign money in his 2008 run for the White House, and the Step-N-Fetch-It media covered it up.
Pam Geller, Editor and Publisher of Atlas Shrugs wrote an excellent expose on the matter.
Here are some excerpts:
“Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama's campaign, no big media picked up the story”
“Foreign donations are illegal, but this story was all that and so much more. The "Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama. Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians" spoke volumes to Obama's campaign.
And yet still no media.”
And here’s the kicker:
“Obama's overseas (foreign) contributors are making multiple small donations, ostensibly in their own names, over a period of a few days, some under maximum donation allowances, but others are aggregating in excess of the maximums when all added up.
The countries and major cities from which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg, Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin, Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland, Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche, Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague, Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya, Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko, Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo, Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi's stomping grounds), etc,etc,etc,”
Is anybody going to give this story any legs besides little ol’ me?
Either Barack Obama is absent-mined, or arrogant enough to know that this wrinkle of his SOTU speech won’t get much play in the ass-kissing media.
Via American Thinker
Via New York Times
Via Politifact.com
Via Atlas Shrugs
From The Last Tradition
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
An Open Letter from Vito Corleone (The Godfather) to President Barack Obama
0 comments Posted by ai at 8:36 AM
Dear Mr. President
I’ve been watching you very closely and there’s a couple of things I have to tell you.
I’m getting tired of you whining all the time that you inherited all these problems from George Bush.
What’s a matter with you?
Did you think being president of the United States is like being a community organizer in Chicago? Did you ever hear me whine about the FBI always following me and taking pictures? Even at my daughters wedding they were hounding me and took pictures.
I thought you were from the Southside?
When I lost my job at the grocery store, did you hear me whine about it or go running to the government for a hand out?
No, I didn’t.
I did what I had to do to protect my family.
And you constantly saying, “I inherited, I inherited, I inherited, last 8 years, last 8 years, last 8 years…”
Take my advice that I gave to my godson, Johnny Faontain:
Even the Obama Girl is tired of your whinny crap!
Stop acting like a pussy and be a Man!
Sincerely
Don Vito Corleone
The Godfather and a Real Man
P.S.
Oh, and don’t forget to spend time with your daughters. Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his children can never be a real man.
Oh, and always take the gun, leave the Cannoli
Update:
Mr. President, again with the whinny about all the problems you had to deal with before you walked in the door.
You ran for the job you idiot!
And what's this criticizing the Supreme Court, right there in the chamber? That was lame.
Act like a man!
Via New York Post
From The Last Tradition
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
I thought in this country you’re presumed innocent before proven guilty.
Not according to ACORN C.E.O, Bertha Lewis, who couldn’t wait to get on the Ed Show to squawk about Conservative activist, James O’Keefe who was arrested today in Louisiana for allegedly trying to wire tap the office of Senator Mary Landrieu.
This is the same senator that was promised $100 million dollars for her state by the Obama administration in exchange for voting for ObamaCare.
I wonder what evidence is lurking in Landrieu’s office.
Via ABC News
Via You Tube
From The Last Tradition
From Big Government.com
Statement from Andrew Breitbart:
“We have no knowledge about or connection to any alleged acts and events involving James O’Keefe at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office. We only just learned about the alleged incident this afternoon. We have no information other than what has been reported publicly by the press. Accordingly, we simply are not in a position to make any further comment.”
A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.
Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office said Tuesday. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.
Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to a phone at the reception desk. Then they asked for access to a phone closet so they could work on the phone system. The men were directed to another office in the building, where they again said they were telephone repairmen.
They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. Details of the arrest were not available. A fourth man, Stan Dai, 24, was also arrested, but Letten’s office said only that he assisted the others in planning, coordinating and preparing the operation.
Federal officials did not say why the men wanted to interfere with Landrieu’s phones or whether they were successful. Landrieu, a moderate Democrat, declined comment Tuesday. She has been in the news recently because she negotiated an increase in Medicaid funds for her state before announcing her support for Senate health care legislation.
Bill Flanagan’s office confirmed his son was among those arrested, but declined further comment.
An FBI criminal complaint charging the men was unsealed Tuesday, and a magistrate set bond at $10,000 each after they made their initial court appearances wearing red prison jumpsuits.
None of the defendants commented on the allegations in court.
“It was poor judgment,” Robert Flanagan’s lawyer, Garrison Jordan, said in a brief interview outside the courthouse. “I don’t think there was any intent or motive to commit a crime.”
Eddie Castaing, who represented O’Keefe, Dai and Basel, said he had no details on the allegations.
“We are just grateful that they were not detained … and they can go home to their families,” he said.
O’Keefe was the brains behind a series of undercover videos that have caused major problems for ACORN—the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now.
He managed to do what Republicans have been trying to do for years—hurt the political affiliates of ACORN, which have registered hundreds of thousands of voters in urban and other poor areas of the country.
By producing undercover videos shot in ACORN offices, O’Keefe brought a firestorm of criticism that the group was helping its low-income clients break the law.
Using a hidden camera, O’Keefe, posing as a pimp and accompanied by a young woman posing as a prostitute, shot videos in ACORN offices where staffers appeared to offer illegal tax advice and to support the misuse of public funds and illegal trafficking in children.
Edited videos of those visits to ACORN offices were first posted on biggovernment.com, a site run by conservative Andrew Breitbart. Reached by phone Tuesday about the Landrieu allegations, Breitbart said, “I know nothing of it other than people are asking me questions.”
In the past, Breitbart has said O’Keefe—now a paid contributor to biggovernment.com—is an independent contractor not an employee.
O’Keefe has been sued in Pennsylvania and Maryland based on the ACORN videos; he does not have an attorney of record in either case and attempts Tuesday to locate a lawyer who might represent him were not successful.
ACORN calls itself the largest grass roots community organization of low- and moderate-income people in the country, claiming over 400,000 families, more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in about 75 cities.
Until the controversy last year over the videos at ACORN offices, 10 percent of ACORN’s funds came from federal government grants. In September, Congress blocked previously approved funds from going to the group.
FBI affidavit Click here
Via Big Government.com
Via Memeorandum
Feom The Last Tradition
Apparently eating and taking a dump in Indonesia for fours years doesn’t deserve a statue.
As President Barack Obama’s popularity in the United States continues to nose dive, that same wave is spreading around the world.
Less than a month after a bronze statue of Obama was unveiled in Jakarta,
55,000 Indonesians have signed a petition demanding the statue which depicts Obama as a ten year old boy, be taken down.
Obama, who was born in Hawaii, lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced mother married an Indonesian.
But, that fact doesn’t seem to be enough of a reason to deserve a monument according to some:
Members of the "Take Down the Barack Obama Statue in Menteng Park" group on Facebook say Obama has done nothing for Indonesia
“Barack Obama has yet to make a significant contribution to the Indonesian nation. We could say Obama only ate and s (expletive) in Menteng. He spent his subsequent days living as an American," the web page says.
"For the dignity of a sovereign nation, Barack Obama's monument in Menteng Park must be removed immediately."
Government officials are mulling over how to handle this grass roots uprising.
Brother, I feel you pain because he isn’t doing much for the United States either.
Via Google News
Via NRW
Via Gateway Pundit
From The Last Tradition
Monday, January 25, 2010
I got a call from my best friend, Felix, who’s wife is a Health Care profession. They had a fight over the weekend over an email she received from Planned Parenthood celebrating the 37th Anniversary of Roe vs Wade.
What the hell is there to celebrate, 50 million babies murdered since 1973? said Felix
I won’t go into the other aspects of their fight, but I told I need to see that email.
Here it is:
Dear Michelle,
1 in 3 women in the U.S. will have an abortion by the age of 45.
The 37th Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade is a good time to remember that abortion is health care. PPNYC CEO Joan Malin addresses that issue in today’s Huffington Post.
Keep fighting the good fight!
Planned Parenthood NYC
So I held my nose and visited the Huffington Post and here is an except of the article written by Jaon Malin, CEO of New York City Planned Parenthood:
“Yet, on this anniversary of Roe. V. Wade, Congress could pass one of the biggest restrictions to abortion access thus far. The health care reform bill, while currently in flux, contains language that would essentially eliminate insurance coverage for any and all abortions, leaving women much worse off than they were before.
Which leaves me begging the question: when will this country realize that abortion care is health care?”
Oh, so now the murder of innocent unborn babies is somehow is synonymous with health care? How does that work exactly? How is the health care of the unborn taken into consideration if his or her life is snatched away by a vacuum cleaner?
It seems to me that Leftist are are quick to point out intolerance in other people, especially Conservatives. But, when it comes to their own intolerance for innocent lives, it doesn’t seem to apply.
Via The Huffington Post
From The Last Tradition
Saturday, January 23, 2010
What world is Obama living in?
There’s an old saying, “dance with the one who brung ya’”
That’s exactly what President Barack Obama has decided to do by reaching out to his former campaign manger, David Plouffe, as a special guru/advisor/hand holder to pick up the pieces of an presidential agenda in shambles.
Plouffe, who is Obama’s version of Karl Rove, has undeniable talent that took, dare I say it, a community organizer from the Southside of Chicago through a head to head battle with the Clinton War machine and won Democrat the nomination.
Who knew?
So, Obama is feeling kind of feisty according to special adviser David Axelrod, the other David, and can’t wait to engage in battle to recover from his worst week in the White House, speeding up his schedule for engaging in the 2010 political races and planning to use his State of the Union address on Wednesday to show the public a feisty side.
The president wants Pouffe to oversee House, Senate and governor’s races to stave off a hemorrhage of seats in the fall.
The president’s leading pollster, Joel Benenson, will be among those conducting research for Mr. Plouffe, aides said, along with others who will divide the country by regions.
It’s the 2008 campaign all over again!
But, there is a great flaw with this strategy that the Obama administration to this day fails to understand. There is a huge difference between running for president, which Obama actually knows how to do, and governing as president, which Obama has painfully demonstrated day in and day out despite the media’s fawning, that he does not know how to manage.
Plouffe magic does not apply to man who has never ran a business, never ran a state or a city as a chief executive and it shows. So, for the rest of the year until the midterm elections, President Obama will become Candiate Obama all over again.
That dog won’t hunt!
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Via New York Times
Via Politico
From The Last Tradition
In politics there are things said for the public to hear, but it’s a totally different story behind closed doors.
As recently as a few days ago, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said with a straight face that there weren’t enough votes in the House to pass the senate version of ObamaCare.
What great news for the voters of Massachusetts and the rest of the country who celebrated the recent election of Scott Brown who ran on a promise to be the 41st vote against Health Care reform and who Obama says was voted into office out of public anger.
However, if you think that President Barack Obama and his far Left Liberal base in congress are going to stop cold with their pursuit of their wildly expensive Health Care reform bill, think again.
TPM Video
These are Democrats!
Nationalized Health Care has been a Liberal wet dream since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. But, maybe you might think that Democrats might slow it down and listen to the American people for a change.
Fat chance!
That’s just as likely as 24/7 coverage on C-SPAN of the meetings behind closed doors between Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid figuring out how exactly they can do the nasty do--passing health care.
However, congressman Alan Grayson, the lovable loon of the House of Representatives, who wanted A.G. Eric Holder to prosecute the creator of a parody website, My Congressman Is Nuts.com, may have let the cat out the bag of whats happening in the shadows of congress on Hard Ball with Chris Matthews:
Yeah, Grayson may be a nutjob, but don’t sleep on the thought that its business as usual in Obamaworld despite the Massachusetts Massacre.
Via Memeoradum
Via Dakota Voice
Via Politico
Via Think Progress
Via Talking Points Memo
From The Last Tradition
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Ayla Brown Defends “Off Script” Remark by Senator Elect Scott Brown
0 comments Posted by ai at 9:08 PM
Every now and then since the beginning of time, Dads have been known to say the silliest things about their children.
Scott Brown is no different.
This is what happens when you try and follow a script
Now this is what happens when you totally go off script
Since they don’t have much to talk about through the tears of their disappointment, the pundits on the Left are a having a field day knocking Scott Brown for making his daughter available for dating to all the men in America.
But, surprisingly enough Glenn Beck joined in on the dog pile with his own critique of Scott Brown even to the extent of making a “dead intern” put down that harkens back to the Gary Condit incident in which a congressman was suspected of killing an intern who worked for him. 
Ayla, Scott, and Arianna
“That is incredible. It just surprises me that people can be so negative,” Ayla said. “I feel as though all fathers across the nation can relate to having daughters and having these conversations…That’s our dad. There’s nothing creepy about it at all.”
Ayla Brown Jan 20, 2010 Politico Interview between classes at Boston Collage
Look, Scott Brown had just finished a grueling campaign to win a race that the so-called experts gave him no shot at winning. So, he goes up there to give the most important victory speech of his life and says something that he probably shouldn’t have. But, if you look at the video, though Ayla was temporarily embarrassed, she took it in stride knowing that he father deeply cares for her as any father would.
It was a human moment for a regular American family.
That’s what made the Scott Brown candidacy so appealing to the voters of Massachusetts.
But, it was a good yuk, anyway!
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From The Last Tradition
Today is the one year anniversary of Barack Obama taking the oath of office for the presidency of the United States. Since it’s impossible to get an honest assessment from the Left wing media that has been in the tank for president, lets get some candor from our friend at Saturday Night Live.
Then look how the Obama-suck ups at CNN for the first time in television history actually do a "fact check" on a comedy show.
It’s been a very tough year, Barry, when you think you deserve a B+ for your performance as president.
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From The Last Tradition
The Democrat Party continues to live in denial. 
Scott Brown the New Republican Senator from Massachusetts
For the first time in 42 years Republicans have won a senate seat in Massachusetts.
Why?
Because contrary to the prevailing wisdom among some so-called like Conservatives David Brooks and Colin Powell, 
the era of Reagan is not dead! It was only stupidly forgotten. And it took a community organizer from Chicago 
to remind the American people how out-of-touch the Democrats are with America.
Conservatism works!
Keep the pressure on!
From The Last Tradition
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
It wasn’t suppose to happen!
In a stunning upset in the Blue state of Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley and sent shock waves across the across the country and most certainly rocked the offices of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and most definitely President Barack Obama.
In one year after Barack Obama’s historic inauguration where Democrats salivated over the prospect of “changing America” into a Liberal Utopian Paradise at the people’s expense, Independent voters in Massachusetts voted in droves to repudiate President Obama’s obscenely expensive Health Care bill.
Scott Brown ran on a simple message that he delivered across the land of John Adams in his pick up truck, “I will be the 41st vote to stop this health care plan and cut your taxes too.”
They came, they voted, he won.
"I voted for Obama because I wanted change. ... I thought he'd bring it to us, but I just don't like the direction that he's heading," said John Triolo, 38, a registered independent who voted in Fitchburg.
Whispers are already making the rounds in Democrat circles in D.C. that despite Brown’s election, the Dems will seek a nuclear option to precede with ObamaCare.
Yes, these guys never learn.
However, some prominent Democrats like Evan Bayh have responded to these rumors with a stern and possibly prophetic warning to his fellow colleagues that such a move can have “catastrophic” consequences in the upcoming 2010 midterm elections in November.
Don’t underestimate the foolishness of the Democrat party.
The wave that started in Virginia with the election of Republican Bob McDonnell picked up enough steam to usher fellow GOPer Chris Christie in New Jersey and continued to tidal wave Scott Brown into Ted Kennedy’s old seat thanks to the ghosts of the Boston Tea party making their presences felt once again.
Scott Brown is going to Washington!
Oh Happy Day!
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From The Last Tradition
Monday, January 18, 2010
It's up to you to make the difference.
It’s crunch tine!
Vote for Scott Brown for U.S. Senate
Your great great grandchildren will thank you for saving them from this fate.
Vote for Scott Brown January 19, 2010 Special Election for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
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From The Last Tradition
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Joe Lieberman Close to Endorsing Conservative Scott Brown for Senate
0 comments Posted by ai at 6:56 PM
It seems that Democrat Joe Lieberman is sticking his finger in the air and noticing the winds of discontent are blowing strong in Massachusetts.
In the bluest of blue states where disgruntled colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston Harbor in 1773 in protest of outrageous taxes imposed by the King of England, that same spirit of patriotism and dissent is welling up in the 2010 special election between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown.
What makes this choice so stunning is that Massachusetts is a Democrat stronghold where registered Democrats out number Republicans 3 to 1. The fact that this race is so close and in one poll Brown has a lead over Coakley tells you one thing.
President Barack Obama’s push to pass a Health Care reform bill that a majority of Americans don’t want has caused the people of Massachusetts to recoil.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell recently said that Health Care reform will be a toxic issue for Democrats not only in 2010, but also 2012 as the Democrat party continues to push for a European-style socialized medical care system that has failed everywhere it’s been tried.
As we enter the last 48 hours of the campaign, the people of Massachusetts are getting ready to relive their ancestral past and send a very clear message to Washington and the rest of the world.
Enough is enough!
Via InsideMedford.com
Via The Hill
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From The Last Tradition
Good people of Massachusetts.
Democrats, Republicans, and Independence, the special election on Tuesday is not just for a seat in the United States Senate, it’s a seat that represents all the people of the United States.
If you want stop out of control spending, if you want stop paying tax increases that will most certainly come thanks to Presedent Barack Obama,
if you want to stop his Health Care Bill, which a preview of it is already reeking havoc in your state, vote for Scott Brown on Tuesday January 19, 2010.
Just don’t do it for Massachusetts and yourself, do it for America!
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From The Last Tradition
Saturday, January 16, 2010
In all the hoopla concerning the rise of terrorist attacks on the American homeland thanks to a president (Barack Obama) who was more interested in playing golf than doing his job as commander-in-chief, we may need to pay closer attention to celebrities’ comings and goings.
Perez Hilton reported on his blog that Halle Berry and her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry totally bypassed security checkpoints at the Quebec Trudeau airport a couple of weeks ago with the help of a police escort.
Call me crazy, but does this sound like another red flag?
We all know that Hollywood is saturated with American-hating Liberals that provide a prime breeding ground for Al-Qaeda radicalization.
Sounds crazy?
Probably as crazy as an Army officer, Nidal Malik Hasan, firing shots at fellow soldiers, killing 12, at Fort Hood while yelling, “God is great!” in Arabic.
So is it so far fetched to think that Sean Penn can waltz right onto a plane without going through TSA checkers and end up blowing himself up for the cause of Allah?
Think about it.
See Perez Hilton
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From The Last Tradition
It the final days of the hotly contested Massachusetts Senate race, Obama-suck up and MSNBC host Ed Schultz broke under the pressure of Republican Scott Brown possibly winning the seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy.
Shultz admitted he would vote 10 times if he lived in Massachusetts and referred to the Republicans party as “a bunch of bastards”.
I’m not surprised Schultz said what he said because the Democrat party has used the likes of ACCORN to rig elections in favor of Democrats candidates for years.
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From The Last Tradition
There isnt much that I can say about Sunday - our last day in Vegas.
Jiggs and Telef had their flight early in the afternoon, which left C-Teezy, Tendo, and myself to cause more havoc in this town. I didnt even get to sleep until about 11AM, so I crashed out until about 4:30 while Tendo and C-Teezy were downstairs gambling. I took a walk around the strip for a couple of hours one last time, which was pretty relaxing.
Then the night began.
At first, the 3 of us were soooo drained and exhausted, but we bucked up because it was our last night in Vegas - go big or go home...or go big THEN go home.
We took a few shots of the alcohol we had left and decided to go to a strip club at around 11:30PM. At a point, my friend that was in town and his friends joined us at our table in the club.
I can't say too much about this night - all I can say is that the three of us walked in at about midnight and I walked out at around 7AM with 3/4 bottle of Skyy vodka (with no cover on the bottle) to take a cab back to the hotel room where I met Tendo and C-Teezy, who at this point had a broken phone and bloody knuckles.
This is pretty much all I can say here about that night. I can divulge more of the story if you ask, but you could imagine how insane this night was.
American Spectator
WORCESTER, Mass. - Supporters of Republican Scott Brown lined the sides of a street here outside a Democratic rally at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where former President Bill Clinton came to campaign for Martha Coakley.
More than 75 boosters of the GOP candidate turned out for the counter-rally, standing the sub-freezing weather to wave Brown signs and loudly sing (to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"), "Glory, Hallelujah . . . Send Scott Brown to D.C.!"
Among the Brown supporters were - believe it or not - rank-and-file members of the Service Employees International Union.
"We're Americans - we have our free choice," said one of the SEIU members, who identified herself only as Michelle and said she drove more than 60 miles from Western Massachusetts - "The stepchild of this state" - to show her support for Brown in Worcester.
Not only is Michelle a Brown supporter, but she's also a Tea Party activist who rode 10 hours on a bus to attend last year's 9/12 March on D.C. "I didn't like the slide into socialism," she explained.
Michelle is aware of the importance of Tuesday's election.
"I feel like we're here . . . not just voting for us," she said. "We are casting our vote for the rest of America."
GO SCOTT GO!!!
Opps SEIU ad against Scott Brown that makes the case why voters SHOULD vote for him!
From The Last Tradition
Friday, January 15, 2010
So, we wake up on Saturday to a room voicemail from the stripclub that sent the strippers saying that one of the girls might have left her cell phone in our room. When we looked, we did find an iphone, but it wasnt her's. We looked through the phone and realized that it actually belonged to the older gentlemen that was hanging with us last night. This guy must be a big deal because we heard some voicemails talking about the government and buying planes and shit.
Anyway, I went to their room an hour later (it was on the same floor as ours) and I was greeted to the chick wearing nothing but a bath towel. She invited me in and the guy was on the bed completely naked with just the white sheet covering his bits. (I should probably divulge that his name is Joel and her name is Mercia) I told Mercia that I already saw her naked the night before, so there was no sense in hiding her body with the towel. She agreed. Joel then got up from the bed and went to the bathroom to take a piss with his old balls just swinging like it was nothing. It was quite a scene. I gave back the phone, and they said that they wanted to hang out again tonight.
We all went to Denny's for lunch, where Jiggs couldn't wait 5 minutes before he puked in the bathroom. After that, we chilled out for a bit then went to a steakhouse at South Point hotel/casino. This place was way off the strip, actually off of I-15, the cab ride was like 20 bucks. It was worth it, though, because it was comped, Telef had a hook up. While waiting for a cab to take us back, after eating, we see these 2 reeeeally hot girls come up to the cab stand to wait for a cab too. After about 10 minutes of checking them out and contemplating saying something to them, an older lady came up to them and was saying happy birthday to one of them. When she asked how old she was gonna be, she said 16. That's when we were like "Holy Shit, back up!"
Getting ready for this night was interesting, since half of us were still hungover from the night before. That didnt stop me, though, I was good to go, pounding shots. We went to the Palms for all of the AVN awards after parties. The awards were actually at the Palms too, so basically everyone was here. The line for taxis getting to the Palms was ridiculous, the place was flooded. We walk into the Palms and there are nothing but hot/slutty women walking around the casino floor. The lines to get into the club were even crazier than the taxi line. Luckily C-Teezy had the hook up and we (including Jiggs' friend Katelyn) basically skipped the huge line and went in ($40 cover, but whatever). Inside Moon and Playboy Club was cool once again, this time there were a lot more pornstars and strippers on this night. Moon also has this retractable roof that opens every now and then and its really fuckin cool.
