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February 20, 2009
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Posted by Van Helsing at February 20, 2009 10:41 AM
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Obama tells Spanish radio: Immigration reform coming
Administration plans to begin drawing up legislation 'over the next several months'
Apparently they see no difference in the two...
Posted by: TED at February 20, 2009 11:56 AM
Well...to be honest, neither do I.
Posted by: Montag (matt) at February 20, 2009 12:06 PM
(Che)nge you can beleive in!
Posted by: Nathaniel M at February 20, 2009 12:06 PM
On Drudge there's an article about taxing drivers per mile by lojacking our cars. In the immortal words of Mr.T." I pity the sucka that messes with my car"! Ok I adlibbed a bit. :)
Posted by: Farmer Ted at February 20, 2009 12:13 PM
Just saw an update on Fox that obaba nixed the mileage tax idea,for now.
Posted by: Farmer Ted at February 20, 2009 12:23 PM
I saw an interesting poll on Rasmussen. Each week they do a poll on "Generic Democrats vs. Generic Republicans." I know it's a broad brush question, but it's still interesting. I graphed it out since 6/8/2008, with Dems getting 47%, and Reps getting 34%. Slowly but steadily, the dems lose and the reps gain, until the graph looks like a squiggly ">" and is now neck and neck at 41/39. For what it's worth.
Posted by: Karin at February 20, 2009 12:33 PM
Repubs are screwed until the come up with a common sense platform based on conservative priinciples. This is the only way to corral the support of the Reagan Democrats. Reagan never pandered, it wasn't necessary.
Posted by: Mike B. at February 20, 2009 12:57 PM
Hey VanH, there's good news. Janet Napolitano has declared that the violence in Mexico isn't spilling across into the US! So you can sleep soundly at night now (ignore that pesky kidnapping stuff).
Posted by: mega at February 20, 2009 1:49 PM
In translation, it looks as if Obama is telling the Mexicans "let's all go to Canada!".
Posted by: bustoff at February 20, 2009 2:04 PM
come to oregon if you want the tax lojak. they are proposing it here! yippee!
Posted by: gomergirl at February 20, 2009 2:28 PM
Speaking of Canada - words fail me....
Posted by: Rob Banks at February 20, 2009 2:29 PM
So fitting that The Obaminator has such graffiti company. The markets are reacting as if His Holiness the Immaculator was Che in the flesh as they continue to plummet - down over 2,000 points since Obama took the delegate lead from Hillary last year, according to Hannity.
Posted by: The MaryHunter at February 20, 2009 2:32 PM
These people dont have any of those wretched KING OBAMA COINS and their sure not fasinated by his carisma they know what he realy is A TYRANT
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at February 20, 2009 3:04 PM
The Democrats said they offered the first woman for president and the first black for president - what they gave us is the first traitor for president.
Posted by: Kevin R at February 20, 2009 3:43 PM
"Posted by: Rob Banks at February 20, 2009 2:29 PM"
Liberals don't really understand the concept of charity no matter how humanitarian they claim themselves to be.
Posted by: Anonymous at February 20, 2009 3:53 PM
Spurwing, those Obama coins are as fake as he is.
Posted by: Scaramouche at February 20, 2009 5:02 PM
Posted by: SK at February 20, 2009 6:11 PM
Sorry. Fumbled the HTML.
There are a TON of video sources, newspapers, blogs, magazines, etc.
Scary stuff.
Posted by: SK at February 20, 2009 6:13 PM
Where is Obambi, anyway? Anyone else notice that Mr. Cool is barely to be seen these days? You'd think with the wealth destruction going on all around us, the market down ANOTHER 7 % in just one quick week, the naif fool would be plastered on our screens lecturing us and taking advantage of Teachable Moment # 426.
It was a blast to see Gibbs talking about Rick Santeli. I totally dig it when Obama administration officials go after media personalities on a personal, mean-spirited level, like with Rush earlier. It both shows the huge credibility problem the Obama people have, and deepens it too. We are well on our way toward nobody taking the socialist nanny-state naif seriously. Except CNN; they had a story today on Michelle's trendsetting leadership in the fashion industry. They will be the last to throw in the towel. But they will. They will.
Posted by: mega at February 20, 2009 7:00 PM
"Except CNN; they had a story today on Michelle's trendsetting leadership in the fashion industry"
I guess her designer's,OMAR the TENT MAKER, bussiness should really take off with her being a trendsetter and all!
Posted by: Anonymous at February 20, 2009 7:33 PM
There was talk on the news this evening (if NPR can be called "news") about some politicians wanting to nationalize the larger banks. I think I'll go down to my interstate banking institution tomorrow, withdraw the lion's share of my savings, and drop it in a local credit union (after taking out a couple hundred bucks to keep in the lock box, just in case). This is getting ridiculous. I know the administration has denied this is in the works, but I trust that about as far as I could throw a 737.
Posted by: PabloD at February 20, 2009 7:58 PM
I thought that, in the story about ACORN breaking into property, the mention of $1900/month mortgage with $2000/month income sounded strange.
Until I found out it has been the norm, as with this couple who expected to buy a 1.5 million condo on 0.02 million annual income -
*mismatch*
Seems this has been going on for years, and now an investigation [alas, in New York, with similar practices] is finally being opened into the practice as a scam - putting a number of "respectable" firms in a bad situation...
Posted by: teqjack at February 20, 2009 9:01 PM
Of Ugly Wealth, Ugly Race, and Ugly Civil War
Folks, it’s getting very ugly out there!
If our new president’s intent was to divide the American people and to cheapen the discourse between them, he is succeeding at a simply mahvelous rate considering the fact he has been in office barely a month. If his aim was to incite a full-scale, second American civil war between those who strive to achieve and those who don’t, veritable class warfare, or between the races, Obama is right on target.
It began in October, if not before, when Obama offhandedly remarked to Joe the Plumber that Americans should “spread the wealth around,” http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/10/16/did-barack-spread-the-wealth-obama-just-blow-the-election.html. That US News website thought that socialistic slip of the lip could have lost him the election which, of course, it didn’t. (Incidentally, the video of that slip has been pulled by YouTube for some mysterious reason.)
The roaring uglies continued later that month when Barbara West of WFTV pursued Obama’s wealth-spreading and other topics in an interview with then-VP candidate Joe Biden who was so befuddled by her probing questions that he asked if she were joking. One of her queries cited Karl Marx’ very similar ideas on sharing the wealth. See that video here: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html. Joe didn’t come off too well in that exchange but that didn’t cost Obama/Biden the election, either.
Americans were obviously not listening very well with all that Obamamania sweeping the land and the Obamassiah was encouraged, heartened, and filled with a sense of unrequited mission. He had laid the groundwork for a social and socialist revolution, and few seemed to care.
Three months later, Obama, properly ensconced on his throne, appointed Black terrorist sympathizer Eric Holder to become the nation’s Attorney General. Evidently, the Senate wasn’t paying much attention to his record, anymore than they accorded attention to other Obamanees, since he was confirmed, 75-21.
Earlier this week, a bare fortnight after his confirmation, the new AG let loose a tirade about how cowardly Americans were on the subject of race, suggesting that if Whites didn’t invite an African American next time they stoked up the backyard barbie then, ipso facto, they were racists.
The fear of God, okay a demigod, apparently precluded sufficient uproar against Holder’s cowardly remark since he still holds office. Had Bush’s attorneys general, John Ashcroft or Alberto Gonzalez, uttered similar racist comments, they would have been drawn, quartered, and forced to resign.
Fear, and the uglies, work both ways as seen in the recent and now infamous NY Post political cartoon,
It doesn’t take much to stir up Rev. Al Sharpton . . .
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
Posted by: Berlet98 at February 21, 2009 12:49 AM
Liberals are now up in storm over the NYP cartoon that features a likeness of Travis the Chimp being shot by cops who ask "who will write the stimulus now?"
They apparently were asleep the past 8 years and now consider it racist to even allegedly chracterize Obama as a chimp. When I asked what they thought of the Bush=Chimp cartoons their response was predictable:
"predictable. How much history is there about calling white people monkeys and lesser beings?"
So characterizing anyone in the black community is racist (even though I think the monkey was meant to be congress), but whites are fair game to such depictions.
Welcome to post-racial America.
Posted by: Ben Huh at February 21, 2009 1:38 AM
CNBC's Rick Santelli Responds to Robert Gibbs
The saga continues...
Posted by: Murff at February 21, 2009 7:16 AM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/18/drunk.amputee.payout/
If you'll excuse me, I need to grab a 40 and jump in front of the Presidential motorcade...
(To the HSA: Not actually going to do it.)
Posted by: Anonymous at February 21, 2009 7:42 AM
Crazed chimp and owner kissed, bathed together, shared bed
THE vicious chimp who attacked a woman and bit off her hands used to kiss his owner goodbye, share a bath with her and CUDDLE in bed.
Sandra Herold fed celeb chimp Travis - famous for appearing in TV ads - the finest food and wine from a glass.
He brushed her hair each night and pined for her when she was away.
If she left the house alone, Travis would give her a kiss.
“If I left with someone Travis would get upset,” Sandra said.
Executive director of Primarily Primates, a sanctuary for chimps in Texas, Stephen Rene Tello said: “This is a crazy relationship.
“He (Travis) was probably very bonded with her. I can kind of see it in his eyes this is his surrogate mother.
“If there is another person entering his space, he might consider it a threat to his territory, or even his mate,” Mr Tello said.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at February 21, 2009 8:13 AM
Good artical. Gene Lalor.
"predictable. How much history is there about calling white people monkeys and lesser beings?"
Well BEN, I'm sure that Liberal would have been surprised to hear about the Irish, Welsh, Spanards, Southeners, Jews and other "whites" who were denengrated by animal names and had their peoples' sex habits questioned.
Posted by: KHarn at February 21, 2009 8:57 AM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at February 21, 2009 8:13 AM
Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew...
Posted by: Mandible Claw at February 21, 2009 8:58 AM
PS:
I like that picture of che, it looks like somebody put a BULLET through his forehead!
Posted by: KHarn at February 21, 2009 8:59 AM
Posted by: teqjack at February 20, 2009 9:01 PM
No, you must be wreong -- I was assurewd just today that the housing collapse, and overall poor condition of the financial markets, was caused by Reagan's and Thatchher's deregulation of the banking sector during the 80s.
I was told this by a left-leaning liberal who incessantly reads Noam Chomsky novels -- so it must be the truth. I mean, someone of such higher knowledge must be talking sense .. Right?
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here's a story that may or may not make the nightly news: Obama-ordered review finds Gitmo meets Geneva convention regulations.
How eeeenteresting.
Posted by: Mandible Claw at February 21, 2009 9:12 AM
Race war a-coming?
Folks, it’s getting very ugly out there!
If our new president’s intent was to divide the American people and to cheapen the discourse between them, he is succeeding at a simply mahvelous rate considering the fact he has been in office barely a month. If his aim was to incite a full-scale, second American civil war between those who strive to achieve and those who don’t, veritable class warfare, or between the races, Obama is right on target.
It began in October, if not before, when Obama offhandedly remarked to Joe the Plumber that Americans should “spread the wealth around,” http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/10/16/did-barack-spread-the-wealth-obama-just-blow-the-election.html. That US News website thought that socialistic slip of the lip could have lost him the election which, of course, it didn’t. (Incidentally, the video of that slip has been pulled by YouTube for some mysterious reason.)
The roaring uglies continued later that month when Barbara West of WFTV pursued Obama’s wealth-spreading and other topics in an interview with then-VP candidate Joe Biden who was so befuddled by her probing questions that he asked if she were joking. One of her queries cited Karl Marx’ comparable ideas on sharing the wealth. See that video here: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html. Joe didn’t come off too well in that exchange but that didn’t cost Obama/Biden the election, either.
Americans were obviously not listening very well with all that Obamamania sweeping the land and the Obamassiah was encouraged, heartened, and filled with a sense of unrequited mission. He had laid the groundwork for a social and socialist revolution, and few seemed to care.
Three months later, Obama, properly ensconced on his throne, appointed Black terrorist sympathizer Eric Holder to become the nation’s Attorney General. Evidently, the Senate wasn’t paying much attention to his record, anymore than they accorded attention to other Obamanees, since he was confirmed, 75-21.
Earlier this week, a bare fortnight after his confirmation, the new AG let loose a tirade about how cowardly Americans were on the subject of race, suggesting that if Whites didn’t invite an African American next time they stoked up the backyard barbie then, ipso facto, they were racists.
The fear of God, okay a demigod, apparently precluded sufficient uproar against Holder’s cowardly remark since he still holds office. Had Bush’s attorneys general,...
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/.)
Posted by: Berlet98 at February 21, 2009 10:35 AM
Anybody hear about an upcoming arrest in the Chandra Levy murder case? I know none of you will believe this, but...Gary Condit isn't even mentioned.
Oh, the power of the protective shield that emanates from having that magic "D" behind your name...
Posted by: Toa at February 21, 2009 1:54 PM
Huffpo and the Blue Scrotum Monkey Story
Those not familiar with the Huffington Post, a blog unaffectionately nicknamed Huffpo, founded and owned by Ariana Huffington and Kenneth Lerer in 2005, aren’t missing much.
The muckraking Ariana’s website, known mostly for leftist hate speech and distortions, outdid itself the other day with a tape involving radio commentator John Gibson and the latest monkey news.
Monkeys certainly seem very much in the news lately what with that Connecticut chimp which ate a woman’s face and was killed and the monkey cartoon in the New York Post which Al Sharpton interpreted as racist. This story involved a third monkey, on the loose in a Seattle zoo, identifiable in the wild by its bright blue scrotum.
Since that was part of its description, the woman reporters...
(Read the rest of this article at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=855 )
Posted by: Berlet98 at February 21, 2009 3:09 PM
Saw someone today wearing a CHE T-shirt i informed them that CHE was a big time terrorists leader didnt get a response
Posted by: Flu-Bird at February 21, 2009 3:55 PM
I can't get my head around the fact that this isn't the # 1 story in the news today. Hillary Clinton: screw human rights, we have more important things to worry about.
I ask only this: if the US does not defend and stick up for the things we value such as human rights, then what exactly are we other than a poweful country with a lot of deadly weapons? Because big powerful countries without values have a very limited shelf life in world history.
We can kiss Taiwan goodbye under Obama.
Posted by: mega at February 21, 2009 4:33 PM
The Oscars: The Envelopes, Please . . .
These are the considered opinions of someone who doesn’t really give much of a flying fig who wins and who loses tomorrow night’s Oscars:
MY PICKS:
Best Picture: It’s a tossup between “Milk” and Frost-Nixon.” Hollywood will be sorely torn between effectively honoring one of its own, dead gay guy Harvey Milk, and slamming a favorite pinata, dead President Richard Nixon. Will love or hatred win the night? My guess would be “Milk,” since so many Hollywoodians can identify with Harvey and with Sean Penn.
Best Director: Ron Howard for “Frost/Nixon.” Opie wins if he loses for best picture. It doesn’t matter, anyway, since Clint Eastwood should have won for “Gran Torino” but he never made the ballot for some reason. Howard chose a great vehicle for his picture and Eastwood made the mistake of choosing a true-to-life vehicle and movie which demonstrated that even conservatives can have hearts. That absurd concept had to have repulsed the Oscar committee.
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler.” Rourke has been in recovery for 23 years after his strenuous efforts in “Nine 1/2 Weeks” and Hollywood can relate to extended rehab. (His co-star in the latter film, Kim Basinger, may have been exhausted as well and she is still in recovery, whether from that 1986 film or from her marriage to Father of the Year, Alec Baldwin.)
Best Actress: I’m betting on Kate Winslet for “The Reader” since they owe her one and because I can’t stand the sight of Meryl Streep. Winslet, however, may have inadvertently voided her Actor’s Equity membership by announcing she would never again appear nekkid in a movie; Streep could appear nekkid on my lawn and I’d throw rocks at her and sic the squirrels on her.
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger as The Joker in “The Dark Knight” because he was good in Mel Gibson’s “The Patriot” which was before he was seduced by the drug culture, the prime outlet for actors and actresses trying to make sense of their lives. Josh Brolin only has a shot if Babs Streisand reminded the Oscar people of “Funny Girl.” Robert Downey, Jr. has a chance if people are into Al Jolsen’s black face, not likely with President Obama in office. Philip Seymour Hoffman could snag the award if Hollywood one again wants to humiliate the Catholic Church.
Best Supporting Actress: Hands down, Amy Adams in “Doubt,” because she’s cute even if she does play a nun. Ever since her association with Seinfeld’s George Costanza, Marisa Tomei lost points in my book. Black actresses Viola Davis or Taraji P. Henson could cop the statuette because of their race, which also puts them in contention.
Best Whatevers: Does anyone really care?
(http://genelalor.com)
Posted by: Berlet98 at February 22, 2009 1:12 AM
Posted by: V the K at February 22, 2009 6:14 AM

