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26Jul/103

Speaking of JournoList . . . [UPDATE]

The Daily Caller has up the conversations that went on there regarding Trig, along with almost all the speculations that would turn up later in Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic blog. Could it be that his realization that this information was about to break was what caused Andrew to state that his research into the mystery of the real mother of Trig had reached an impasse?

If you read this stuff, there are some reasonable and some pretty wacky voices in there, decent and vile, and one hilarious commenter who lacks even the most fundamental grasp of applied statistics. There's another who speculates that Trig might instead suffer foetal alcohol syndrome.

Most of them realized how stupid it would be to try to go with the "story," so it seems likely that one of them sought out The Excitable One and poured this gobbledygook into his pot-addled pate, adding a few flattering words about how he was the only one with the courage to float these allegations. As it turned out, he was the only one with the stupidity to persist after even Ricky Hollywood wouldn't throw him a bone.

Via Insty, Da Techguy chronicles Ezra Klein's appearance on Morning Joe, in which the JournoList scandal's not even mentioned, and here's another Daily Caller piece on JournoListers debating how best to support the Obama candidacy.

As per Bob's earlier post on the startling revelations regarding Obama and the Lockerbie bomber, here's what we were saying about this 10 months ago. Good thing our hardworking journalists were digging into this fiasco.

Insty's things you might have missed this weekend doesn't include the rumors of a Zeta gang invasion of Laredo, TX area ranches, which would have been a good subject for "War of the Worlds" treatment:

Rancher: They come in a-ridin' on they's chupacabras, hair all spiky an' fearsome-like, high on peyote an' tequila, guns a-blazin', yammerin' they's Mexican talk!

And just because we here on The Island of Misfit Bloggers like to be perverse about timing, here's a Rule 5 entry named Vida Guerra:

UPDATE: Andrew chimes in on JournoList and Trig. Like Ed Schultz, he busted his ass for Obama, and all he got was a busted ass.

Dan Collins

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26Jul/105

PriO!rities II: Obama to appear on “The View” this week

A "hard-hitting" interview to be sure

Because, you know, he doesn't have anything better to do...

ABC's "The View" has welcomed many notable guests, but none more prominent than President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to visit for Thursday's edition.

In making the announcement on Monday, executive producers Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie said this marks the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited a daytime talk show.

They said the majority of the hour will be devoted to Obama's appearance, which will touch on topics including jobs, the economy, the Gulf oil spill and family life inside the White House. It is scheduled to tape on Wednesday.[emphasis-ed.]

Here's an idea Mr. President, why don't you spend some time, like, actually working on those challenges rather than stopping by the gaggle of 4 ultra-liberals and their token. I mean, for a guy who decried Boooooooooooosh!, for being in perpetual campaign mode and "politicizing" various government agencies, during the seemingly never-ending 2008 campaign he sure seems to think he's entitled to do so; as usual, it's do as I say, and not as I do.

Sure, I can understand his desire to talk over the heads of the press corps, especially with "Recovery Summer" going sooooo well. Also, there are serious questions about Afghanistan, and even the lastest scrum involving the knee-jerk dismissal of Shirley Sherrod that the fourth estate might like to explore. Where better to evade such hard questions than on the view? Instead, he can discuss the nuances of his summer vacations, all while not having to own the inconvenient truth that the first canine, Bo, flew to Maine separate from the family in high style on his own private jet! I wonder what all of the unemployed, struggling to make their bills, think of that, or the Enviro-nazis that are wringing their hands over people using air conditioning? Seems a bit, oh, out of touch with what most Americans are experiencing; another of Goebbles Axelrod's campaign 2008 talkiing points.

Yes, it's a golden opportunity for him too woo disgruntled low information voters with a one hour vapid Barack-show, where he can showcase his charisma and good looks, and the hosts can keep busy telling thier audience just how awesome and great Mr. Obama is. No, no ones ever been too seriously injured by a softball pitch, and you can be sure that's all he'll be getting during the tongue bath "The View" ladies give him.

Is this galling any of you kind readers half as much as it's galling me? I'm just curious. There is a silver lining, though, to all this; who really watches "The View" anyway ? And, I wonder when the real press is going to get fed up with this guy?

This kind of gives another twist on Michael Ramirez' cartoon commentary regarding the journolist revalations. Maybe he can draw one that has "The View" ladies as part of O!'s protection detail.

Rocketman

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26Jul/1011

Damn Christians

Last week I had a series of interesting sales calls (meetings).

One with a business founded and run by Antiochian Orthodox and another with a Lutheran Church (Wisconsin Synod = Conservatives).

In both cases, we were able to speak (and joke) about the schisms (yes, they came up in conversation - go figure). As you know I am Latin Rite.

I was very impressed by both sets of people - warm, loving, caring, welcoming, interested, engaging.

I have said before that I believe we will eventually be forced to align ourselves in this generation with the Forces of Light or alternatively the Black Tide. I believe that this sense is universal among Christians. And because of it, there is a lot more tolerance among the various flavors. I am beginning to like most all of them damnable Christians...

We will need each other desperately when the time comes. Maybe this is how the old wounds will be healed. With Christ at the center and the Enemy at the gate.

Enoch_Root

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25Jul/106

Ric Locke Is Back Posting

Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers. And visit his place.

Dan Collins

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25Jul/101

New Al Gore Poem

"Science"

One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
Because you wouldn't
Release my second chakra,
Bitch.

Dan Collins

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25Jul/106

Obama administration effectively signed off on Lockerbie bomber release

FREEDOM!

Well I'm shocked, SHOCKED!, that O! would lie to the public about the regime's role in this:

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as "half-hearted" and a sign it would be accepted.

The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future "frank and open communications" with other governments. [empahsis-es.]

High crimes and misdemeanors? Maybe not, but can we call it the usual hypocritical rank dishonesty that we've grown used to with Obama? Yes We Can!

Ace snarks:

But given the choice -- jail or freedom -- the White House chose... freeeeedommm!

Yeah...Too bad they don't seem so committed to freedom here at home.

What do you think about this revoltin' development, kind reader. And what do you think your trust level for the Present-dent's future palavering pronouncements will be?

Rocketman

Tagged as: Democrat dishonesty, High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Obama, Obama lies, Treason 6 Comments

25Jul/100

Iffy Pensions, 25July2010

39-year old police sergeant, accused of stealing money from the public, claims a disability pension ....and it's granted
Stamford, CT activist wants to join a lawsuit as defendant - she claims to be an actuary and attorney [but I can't find proof she's an actuary]. She says the city isn't defending the suit strongly enough, which involves yet another public employee accused of stealing public money and having their pension being withheld.
Double-dipper in Mississippi- collecting $42K in pension benefits while employed full-time at $95K.
Bookkeeper's pension jumps about 30% in one year-that always looks good.
Grandfathered California official gets years of credited service...why everyone is so shocked that people will game systems to their utmost to benefit themselves.... esp. people who are part of groups that will share the infoi of how to game the system.... there's absolutely no shame amongst these people.

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Meep is a member of the Irish Catholic mafia, having a suspiciously high number of green-eyed, red-haired friends. While she doesn’t have red hair herself [except when she goes into the sun (rare for any vampire)], she does have green eyes. She’s a raving Papist and is a life actuary on the side [i.e., she counts dead people]. An amateur pain-in-the-ass [willing to go pro!], she likes covering retirement, mortality, math, and education issues.

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24Jul/1015

Teachers and the Captive Audience

Let's see... now, we are told, year-round public indoctrination education is a necessity. Because, you know, we have done without it so long that something significant must have changed for the group of people who benefit most from the status quo seek to change it.

The cynical among us will immediately notice this push for what it is.

1) a push-back against people who have decided to yank their kids out of the public education morass. that is, homeschoolers - who tend to be all God-bothery and racisty - desiring, you know, the opportunity to spare their children from statethink. I must say, the un-doing good parents among us must do on a daily basis is quite a task. We must undo all manner of inconvenient memes introduced to and then chiseled into our beloved childrens' brains. Gay "Marriage" and Globular Warmongering come to mind. But, we could easily throw in "alternate" lifestyle marketing, anti-Christian, pro-Muslim fascism.

2) countering the obvious truth that those very high-minded (but not real smart) public indoctinairres are found to be pigs at the trough. Cadillac benefits none but senators and fat unionistas can claim, 3 months off, early retirement, pensions, and secondary careers after retirement... sure. they do it for teh children.

I could go on. And I might.

But there is also another segment of the population who would love for my children to go to school year-round. Namely, "working moms." I put it is quotes because it seems to me the hardest working women I know are the stay-at-home variety, whose work is paramount and from which never is a paid vacation.

Let's face it: if those damnable accessories weren't so damnably demanding a woman might be able to climb the ladder faster and save some cash in the meantime - kids at school do not result in day-care bills, you see.

It is all crap. And it has nothing to do with being competitive. I have observed in the workplace that some folks have the remarkable ability to spend 60 hours doing what should take 40. I have seen projects afforded 250 hours which could have been done in 120 but ended up taking 275 hours. Am I wrong to assume that a teacher might be completely ok making more money doing 1/4 less work any given day - and having 25% more time to do it? Am I wrong to presume that the next step would be to claim, as is always the case, that teh pay will not suffice for having expanded hours?

I guess my real issue has to do with marketing of the concept. We will be told it is for the children. We will be instructed that a year-long school year is necessary for "America to remain competitive in the global economy." This, coming from people who have demon-strated the highest degree of ignorance as it pertains to the marketplace and the basic economic ins-and-outs. But, in reality, the motivation will be most obvious to any who actually retain the ability to critically think: what teachers want these days has ZERO to do with teh Children (who are our future, etc.) and EVERYTHING to do with selfishness.

I say: f*ck em. Next to government bureaucrats, public school teachers are the worst.

Enoch_Root

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24Jul/101

A Tale of Guantanamo Prisons

Only one of which causes media wailing.

Guantánamo, you see, is not only the name of a U.S. military base in Cuba, but it's also the name of a Cuban province that contains 94 (Castroite) jails. And some prisoners from nearby Cuban jails (Castro's Cuba boasts from two to three hundred prisons; Batista's Cuba counted twelve) were recently forcibly deported (not "released," as the current MSM/Castroite spin claims) to Spain, where they revealed the above horrors.

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Prisoners, as we all know from the thirteen gazillion MSM articles, also exist in the U.S. enclave of the Guantánamo province. And as we learn from a Spanish reporter named Marc Bassets who recently visited the U.S base, many of these prisoners were horribly anguished of late. (No reporters, by the way, dare venture anywhere near Castro's prisons. Their employers' Havana press bureaus would be "seriously jeopardized" by such insolence.)

At any rate, the anguish among the prisoners on the U.S. side stemmed from their concerns about securing good front-row seats at the prison hall to watch the World Cup. The prison's wide-screen TVs capture over twenty channels, including Al Jazeera, so some observers felt the anguish was a bit overblown.

Among the other horrors uncovered by Bassets:

*To alleviate the prisoners' suffering, the six Halal menus are revised -- but only every two weeks!

*Though the prisoners receive thousand calories daily -- only twice a week are they allowed Pepsi-Cola and ice cream!

*Though a prison library exists -- it contains only 17,000 books!

*Though the prisoners can attend English, accounting, and art classes -- these can be boring!

The worldwide MSM agonizes over the legal process that landed prisoners in the U.S. Guantánamo prison. If only they'd show a molecule of such indignation against the process that lands prisoners on the Castro side.

Belly up, useful idiots.

Dan Collins

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24Jul/102

Video Outlines Environmental Damage Done to US Border Parklands by Illegal Aliens

Meanwhile, Department of the Interior is fining US Border Patrol millions for environmental damages done in performance of their duties. Hope! Change!

Not entirely unrelated, the story of how child killer Jon Venables, back in prison for possession of kiddie porn, is going to be provided with yet another identity at cost to UK taxpayers of 250k pounds. Like the $13 million settlement for Shirley Sherrod, this is pretend compassion. Her pain and suffering were apparently worth more than others', because she's more authentick.

That money could have gone to more deserving people, and more people, and for better reasons, and to better use.

Also related: "Cass Sunstein stated, 'But I think it would be a huge mistake, an abuse a form of arrogance for the supreme court to understand the Constitution to require everyone to have food and a place to live.'"

Progressivism is absolute, gibbering incoherence. Kind of like Thor.