February 9, 2010
Moonbat Compassion
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 10:45 AM | Comments (42)
Yeah, I'm sure they need those.
(Spotted in San Francisco, of course.)
And They Say Chairman Zero Is Anti-Business
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 10:39 AM | Comments (5)
Craig Becker, who is Dear Reader's nominee to the National Labor Relations Board has some rather interesting opinions; and by interesting I mean, devastating to business but right in line with the Democrat Party's socialist philosophy.
Becker, a lawyer for the AFL-CIO and SEIU, ... has argued that workers should be allowed to choose only between unions, not between a union and no representation, and he wants employers to be banned from even attending NLRB hearings about union elections. On the subject of the NLRB itself, he has gone so far as to write that "employers should have no right to be heard in either a representation case or an unfair labor practice case, even though Board rulings might indirectly affect their duty to bargain." In other words: "Shut up."
Becker is, naturally, also tied in with ACORN.
Whenever Obama denies being a socialist, I always think of the serial killer Randy Kraft, who was arrested with the body of a victim in his car, and photographs of his other victims under the seat, but who still protested his innocence until the day he was executed. Some people believed him, too. Sad, isn't it?
Another Phony Soldier Busted
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:55 AM | Comments (17)
The Stolen Valor Act has deprived progressives of a vocal supporter for the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Remember Michael Patrick McManus, the noisily homosexual moonbat who showed up at the inauguration party of Houston's noisily homosexual Democrat mayor wearing more medals than a Third World dictator?
Poor Michael's glorious military career has suffered a setback:
The man, who the FBI says is nothing but a fraud … showed up in a military uniform at Houston Mayor Annise Parker's inauguration. The problem is that he didn't earn any of the medals he was wearing.
Michael Patrick McManus was arrested Friday night after a federal judge signed a warrant for his arrest.
One of McManus's medals would make him Commander of the British Empire.
"He was always kind of strange," said one neighbor.
Judging by his cap in this video, McManus may actually be a secret agent for the CIA:
I hope Rush Limbaugh hasn't called McManus a phony soldier. We wouldn't want to get Hanoi John Kerry riled up again.
On tips from Dystopic PC and Mandible Claw. Hat tips: Blackfive, This Ain't Hell.
Open Thread
Posted by Van Helsing at 9:45 AM | Comments (14)
Teacher Francisco Olivares Still on Payroll Despite Molesting Students
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:58 AM | Comments (7)
Unfortunately for leering pervert Alan Rosenfeld — who collects a $100,000 salary as a teacher who can't be trusted around kids to teach while running his lucrative law practice and real estate business — he is forced to share his Department of Education rubber room with other unfit but unfireable teachers whom he regards as "deadbeats" and "losers." So that he doesn't get lonely, maybe he should strike up a friendship with Francisco Olivares:
At the beginning of his 32-year career as a math teacher in Queens, Francisco Olivares allegedly impregnated and married a 16-year-old girl he had met when she was a 13-year-old student at his Corona junior high, IS 61, The Post learned.
He sexually molested two 12-year-old pupils a decade later and another student four years after that, the city Department of Education charged.
But none of it kept Olivares, 60, from collecting his $94,154 salary.
He hasn't set foot in a classroom in seven years since beating criminal and disciplinary charges. Chancellor Joel Klein keeps Olivares in a "rubber room," a district office where teachers accused of misconduct sit all day with nothing to do.
Why not fire him? Union rules. If Comrade Obama is able to ram card check through, unions will control most everything, making folks like Olivares unfireable no matter their line of work. You can count them among Chairman Zero's "jobs saved."
Don't think too harshly of Olivares. After all, according to Planned Parenthood, children are "sexual beings" in need of "comprehensive sexuality education."
On a tip from Edward.
Planned Parenthood Pushes Sexualization of Ten-Year-Olds
Posted by Van Helsing at 8:06 AM | Comments (14)
One indication that moonbattery is not just misguided but evil is that progressives have an obsession with corrupting children. This is why, under our Hopey Changey regime of pure moonbattery, our federal "Safe Schools Czar" is a militant pervert associated with NAMBLA. It's also the reason for this:
A new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is advocating that children as young as 10 be given extensive sex education, including an awareness of sex's pleasures.
This latest push to sexualize 10-year-olds provides yet another opportunity for moonbats to open fire on Christianity, which they once again equate with Islam. Complains the federally funded abortion mill's report (PDF):
Young people's sexuality is still contentious for many religious institutions. Fundamentalist and other religious groups the — Catholic Church and madrasas (Islamic schools) for example — have imposed tremendous barriers that prevent young people, particularly, from obtaining information and services related to sex and reproduction. Currently, many religious teachings deny the pleasurable and positive aspects of sex and limited guidelines for sexual education often focus on abstinence before marriage…
Understandably, since abstinence does not produce costumers, Planned Parenthood disapproves of it — even among children.
According to PP, their 10-year-old potential customers are "sexual beings" in need of "comprehensive sexuality education." Therefore sex ed should present sexuality as a "positive force for change and development, as a source of pleasure, an embodiment of human rights and an expression of self."
Michelle Turner, president of the Maryland-based Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, notes that once again progressives are trying to shove parents out of the picture, the better to impose their social engineering. Ed Mechmann, spokesman for New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, observes that PP is attempting to undermine traditional values — and that PP makes money selling contraception and abortion.
Remember when moonbats launched a jihad against Joe Camel for allegedly tempting children to become smokers? Maybe old Joe should be brought back to advance a cause liberals seem to believe in — indiscriminate premature sex. The sooner kids get started, the more abortions they can have — and that means more profit for Planned Parenthood.
On a tip from Mega.
The SEC Works Hard for the Money
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:59 AM | Comments (2)
Your tax dollars at work: while the SEC wasn't tracking Bernie Madoff or preparing to lower the boom on successful banks and their employee bonuses, they were sliding through the web for the good of the nation and helping to raise up at least one sector of the economy in the process.
The work computer of one regional supervisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed more than 1,800 attempts to look up pornography in a 17-day span: "It was kind of distraction per se," he later told investigators.
But he wasn't alone. More than two dozen SEC employees and contractors over roughly the past two years have faced internal investigations after they were caught viewing pornography on their government computers, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and other public documents.
The activities of porn-surfing SEC workers, a small fraction of the overall work force, have been serious enough to warrant a mention in each of the past four semiannual reports sent to Congress by the SEC's office of inspector general.
If the folks overseeing the Evil Banking Industry and Evil Wall Street can't even be trusted not to steal money from the Federal Government (and you know, time is money), then that makes them even more despicable than Congress, which at least wheels and deals and steals our tax money a bit more out in the open.
Windmill Fail Fix
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:50 AM | Comments (15)
You can despise the Obama administration all you want, but you have to give them props for quick action on this one. Dear Leader's Department of Energy is already all over that Minnesota frozen windmill farm fail with an ingenious fix.
Continue reading "Windmill Fail Fix"
More Windmill Fail
Posted by The MaryHunter at 5:15 AM | Comments (16)
Yet another example of failed eco-idiocy in the name of green:
Like a lot of California transplants, 11 newcomers to Minnesota are having a hard time adjusting to our winters.
They are wind turbines, erected last fall by 11 [Minneapolis-St. Paul] metro and outstate cities. The green-energy machines were expected to be spinning before Christmas, but so far their blades have been largely motionless, apparently paralyzed by frigid weather.
The refurbished, 115-foot towers had operated on a California wind farm, where they didn't have to worry about cold hydraulic fluid turning to gel and oil lubricants getting too sluggish.
Who would have thought that one would need to battle Gaia in order to save the environment?
I'm Back, Baby!
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at 4:32 AM | Comments (9)
Good Morning Right-Wing Patriots and Left-Wing Paste-Eaters,
The two feet of Global Warming that fell on the National Capitol Region knocked out my internet service at about 9:00 pm Friday and it was not restored until 8:00 pm last night. I have been more or less snowbound with four teenage boys, only two of whom are legally mine. This may sound like a dream-come-true for Barney Frank, but for the rest of us, not so much.
And since Manbearpig is coming around for another pass, I may lose the ability to post again. In which case, posting will be sparse. The internet already stroked out once while composing this. Or, I may be snowed in with an internet connection, in which case, I will be posting more often than Paris Hilton's Random Stranger Sex blog.
Also, I went to the store this morning to load up on supplies, and people were stocking up like the commies were thirty miles away and advancing; which, given my proximity to Washington DC, is more or less the case.
I hope I'll see you later.
February 8, 2010
ObaMarx
Posted by The MaryHunter at 6:39 PM | Comments (24)
No, not that Marx. Obama is actually channeling Groucho, as noted by Jihad Kitty and Granny Jan.
Graucho MarxB. Hussein Obama
Buy an Audi or Else
Posted by Van Helsing at 6:06 PM | Comments (17)
Despite the annual hype, yesterday's Super Bowl ads were mostly lame yet again. But at least this one offered a precautionary glimpse of our near future:
It's reassuring to know that if we drive the car we're told to drive, the authorities won't arrest us for existing — just yet.
On tips from Shayne and Jimbo.
The Obama Touch Continues
Posted by Van Helsing at 2:22 PM | Comments (26)
I doubt Peyton Manning appreciates Obama having picked the Colts to win.
Compliments of RMartin.
Open Thread
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:52 PM | Comments (28)
Democrat-Led Congress Losing Support among Democrats
Posted by The MaryHunter at 1:05 PM | Comments (10)
Gallup's latest numbers on congressional approval (because we love polls):
PRINCETON, NJ -- Congress' job approval rating from Americans fell six points in the past month, from 24% to 18% -- the lowest reading in more than a year. Nearly 8 in 10 (78%) now disapprove.
This decline in congressional approval is largely explained by a sharp drop in approval among rank-and-file Democrats, from 45% in January to 30% today. The slight changes in approval among Republicans and independents are not statistically significant.
In a related finding, among ideological groups, approval of Congress is down mainly among liberals (from 40% in January to 24% today). Support from moderates was already fairly low, at 28%, and is now 21%. There has been no change in approval among conservatives, at 14%.
Just how many of the Democrats/liberals who now despise the Democrat-led congress do so because they haven't gotten enough hand-outs in the form of ObamaCare and more Cash-for-Clunkers-type programs isn't clear from the polling. Or, maybe it's just another dimension of buyer's remorse, moving beyond Obama to focus on Capitol Hill.
Bureaucrats Live Large as Collapse Impends
Posted by Van Helsing at 1:01 PM | Comments (9)
Here's another indication as to just where all the money is going as our liberal kakistocracy spends us into inevitable economic collapse:
The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.
Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs [and that was back in early December] in the private sector.
That was back in December. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, payroll employment has now fallen by 8.4 million since the economic crisis Obama has been milking began.
Not outraged yet? Try this:
When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.
The trend to six-figure salaries is occurring throughout the federal government, in agencies big and small, high-tech and low-tech. The primary cause: substantial pay raises and new salary rules. …
The growth in six-figure salaries has pushed the average federal worker's pay to $71,206, compared with $40,331 in the private sector.
It won't stop until we stop it — or until the entire house of cards collapses like Zimbabwe.
Mark Stein comments on our rulers' unsustainable spending:
Testifying to the House Budget Committee, Director Elmendorf attempted to pull back from the wilder shores of "unsustainable": "I think most observers expect that the government will act, that the unsustainability will be resolved through action, not through witnessing some collapse down the road," he said. "If literally nothing is done, then eventually something very, very bad happens. But I think the widespread view is that you and your colleagues will take action."
Dream on, you kinky fantasist. The one thing that can be guaranteed is that a political class led by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, a handful of reach-across-the-aisle Republican accommodationists, and an economically illiterate narcissist in the Oval Office is never going to rein in unsustainable spending in any meaningful sense. That leaves Director Elmendorf's alternative scenario. What was it again? Oh, yeah: "Some collapse down the road." …
It's not the "debt" or the "deficit," it's the spending. And the only way to reduce that is with fewer government agencies, fewer government programs, fewer government employees, lower government salaries.
Instead, all four are rocketing up: We are incentivizing unsustainability, and, when it comes to "some collapse down the road," you'll be surprised how short that road is.
If we don't get the keys to the liquor cabinet away from our drunken kakistocracy, it will literally destroy America within the next decade.
On tips from Edward and Lyle. Hat tip: Death by 1000 Paper Cuts.
Crib Notes
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:50 AM | Comments (62)
Maybe Comrade Obama is a stuttering dunce without his teleprompter, but — falling back once again on the bogus equivalency liberals apply to every conceivable situation — HuffPo observes that Sarah Palin had notes written on her palm for her uplifting speech at the Tea Party Convention.
In the future, moonbats won't be so quick to denounce crib notes, in light of these revealing pictures:
Via iOwnTheWorld.com. On tips from TED.
Penn State Whitewashes Michael Mann
Posted by Van Helsing at 11:18 AM | Comments (15)
As predicted, Penn State's investigation into con man Michael Mann — who has brought the university a fortune in taxpayer money with his provably false efforts to prop up the global warming hoax — has been nothing but a whitewash.
Penn State ended a two-month probe into the work of Michael Mann, a top climate scientist whose "hockey stick" graph of climbing world temperature helped galvanize support for the climate change movement, on Wednesday.
The probe stemmed from the release of thousands of hacked e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England that showed the internal debate and, some say, the manipulation of data, to support the scientific underpinnings of the case for global, man-made warming of the planet. Mann's e-mails were among those released and critics charged that he used "tricks" to make his data match studies that confirmed warming trends.
A three-person board of inquiry cleared Mann of three of four charges brought by the university that he falsified or tried to destroy data, and recommended further study on the fourth charge that his methods "deviated from accepted practices" of the scientific community.
They wrote in their report that "that there exists no credible evidence that Dr. Mann had ever engaged in, or participated in, directly or indirectly, any actions with intent to delete, conceal or otherwise destroy e-mails, information and/or data."
Does this mean the Nittany Liar isn't a crook after all? Hardly.
But the findings and, more importantly, the focus have set off a wave of criticism accusing the university panel of failing to interview key people, neglecting to conduct more than a cursory review of allegations and structuring the inquiry so that the outcome — exoneration — was a foregone conclusion.
Here's why even a pig like Mann could be predicted to come up smelling like roses, according to the educrats:
Mann, according to published reports, has gotten a grant almost $550,000 in stimulus money to study climate change and is part of a nearly $2 million grant to Penn State to study the impact of climate change on various diseases.
Liberal ideology is doing to science what it does to everything else it touches: rotting it into a corrupt lie.
On a tip from Oiao.
US Taxpayer Money Bestowed Upon Hamas Terrorists
Posted by Van Helsing at 10:47 AM | Comments (13)
As Obama et al. spend their way through our country's future, here's an example of where the money is going:
The United States announced on Thursday that it will donate $40 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Arabs in the Palestinian Authority-assigned areas, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria who fled when Israel was established in 1948. About a quarter of the package is supposed to be designated for food and the creation of jobs. The rest is for maintaining basic services provided by the agency.
The American funding comes despite a report commissioned by the European parliament, which showed that Hamas terrorists have been chosen by the agency's labor union to oversee its Gaza facilities, which was part of a Canadian decision last month to stop its UNRWA funding.
Apparently payback continues for the enthusiastic support Hamas offered Obama before his catastrophic election. Not to worry, no doubt most of the Americans killed by Hamas deserved it for supporting the racist state of Israel.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Still More IPCC Junk Science Passing as "Settled Science"
Posted by The MaryHunter at 10:09 AM | Comments (7)
New factual errors were revealed yesterday in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 landmark "scientific" report. The latest crop, published in the Telegraph, include:
* The publication of inaccurate data on the potential of wave power to produce electricity around the world, which was wrongly attributed to the website of a commercial wave-energy company.
* Claims based on information in press releases and newsletters.
* New examples of statements based on student dissertations, two of which were unpublished.
* More claims which were based on reports produced by environmental pressure groups.
* The IPCC also made use of a report by US conservation group Defenders of Wildlife to state that salmon in US streams have been affected by rising temperatures. The panel has already come under fire for using information in reports by conservation charity the WWF.
* Estimates of carbon-dioxide emissions from nuclear power stations and claims that suggested they were cheaper than coal or gas power stations were also taken from the website of the World Nuclear Association, rather than using independent scientific calculations.
If this wasn't such a serious matter affecting the economies of the industrialized world and the lives of countless poor in developing countries, it would be gut-busting hysterical. But don't expect Michael Moore to make a documentary about this hoax anytime soon -- unless, of course, the socialist hypocrite could get another tax write-off for it.
When will the lies in the name of global warming/climate change end? And how will it affect Al Gore's and Rajendra Pachauri's net worth? Inquiring minds want to know.
Hat tip: Hot Air, on a chilly tip from J.
