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VH, any random Joe or Josephine who landed on this site today would just assume this site is all one big April Fool's gag. Of course, there's NO WAY that all this wacky stuff could be, like, really real.

Thank you for bringing the painful (and often hilarious) truth to us all - no foolin' :D

We can't have it both ways. Obama can't be at the same time a bumbling fool who hasn't a clue and is bewildered by the various demands of actually running something and a scheming clever manipulator who plans on taking complete control of the country and turning us into a liberal wet dream.

He may actually be one of a third or fourth alternative: that is a madman who has varying degrees and periods of focused lucidity or a puppet being run by Soros and left wing madmen who on occasion get the strings crossed.

I watch Obama on TV in Europe and I think...oh my Lord...this man is representing this country. He is actually the President of the United States and he has no clue what he is doing. Lord help us all.

GOP shenanigans again? Threatening court battle in New York
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/gop-democrats-trying-to-steal-ny20-2009-04-01.html
Someone explain why they want want Minnesota again?

Anonymouse, those aren't "shenanigans," it's election law. Those absentee ballots are largely military. They get a vote, too, you know. Now stop your Tomfoolery.

Government Claims Power to Ban Books and Speech

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/government_claims_power_to_ban.html

Far more important than the specific facts in this case was the enormous scope of power that the Obama Administration was claiming under BCRA, an array so broad that the justices balked at the government's answers to their questions. The Obama Administration claimed that BCRA allows the federal government to ban a 600-page book if it mentions a candidate's name only once, a 90-minute movie if it mentions a candidate's name once, or even a toy action figure of a candidate. If the organization uses a single dime of its general funds to produce, promote or distribute any such materials during the "blackout" periods, it becomes a federal crime.

Karin, ok, we are in agreement here. That said, like in 2000 when counting every ballot was so horrifying that the Courts decided it, why is it now suddenly an issue? I am here looking for debate. I am not going to get into some "tomfoolery" as you suggest. Take the Mn. contest, where you have a TX. Senator interjecting himself, as well as Democratic leadership, and all the while the people of Minnesota are w/o two Senators. If the people of New York's 20th are put through the same thing, I ask, where does it stop? For the record, I would apply this argument to my own party.

Furthermore, why would GOP file a lawsuit prior to polls closing in NY 20th?

The Frenzied Rush for Obama-slation

There’s a plan behind the Obama frenzy to issue and overturn presidential orders and at the root of the frenzy of his fellow Democrats in Congress to propose, pass, and get signed into law legislation which radically changes the American social, economic, and political landscape.

As for actually reading and digesting the import of any bills before Congress votes on them and the president signing them, the prevailing philosophy is: Damn the reading, full speed ahead. Of paramount importance is keeping focused on the election of 2010.

Rahm Emanuel, the president’s version of Karl Rove, must be absolutely giddy over his achievements to date in this very young administration. As Obama’s entourage headed off to Europe en masse, 500 bodies strong, including speech writers, advisors, security personnel, chefs, personal attendants, and designated bottle washers, Rahm must be proud indeed of what they have done so far.

Now comes the biggest challenge to date. The European excursion has multiple purposes but chief among them is Obama’s need to persuade heads of state that Obama is right and that they are all as wrong as snow in April. Whatever the results, they have good reason to be cocky, considering their successes so far.

First, there was the campaign itself, a campaign in which Obama could promise and say virtually anything and commit gaffe after gaffe with impunity, knowing the mass media would cover for him, which it did repeatedly. Maybe, as Obama said, there really are 57 states and the rest of us just haven’t noticed the new arrivals?

Then there were all the promises he made regarding such hot topics as funding embryonic stem cell research, unfetterring gays in the military, shuttering Gitmo, massively increasing spending and taxes, pushing for union-sought card check, wiping out abortion restrictions via FOCA, instituting Cap and Trade, et al. All those initiatives have been fulfilled or are in process of fulfillment.

Our president hasn’t yet made specific proposals on other campaign promises and implicit aims. Sharing the wealth, dismantling the military, stemming the rising seas, restructuring the planet, climbing every mountain, swimming every sea will have to wait for his return so give the man time.

Most recently he tested the opposition waters to see what he could get away with in his quest for dictatorial powers. Obama crossed his Rubicon with his outrageous and unprecedented dismissal by fiat of the CEO of a major American corporation. And there was barely a ripple in the waters.

Call it a power grab or a dictatorial presumption by a power hungry Chief Executive, President Obama tipped his hand with that action. He revealed what some of us have long suspected, that he sees himself far removed from the norm of what a president is and what powers a president should have in a representative democratic republic.

There was good reason for his nickname, the Obamassiah.

GM’s Rick Wagoner ostensibly stepped down at the president’s “behest,” a euphemism for “demand” and took his $22 million . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)

At least there are people who are interested in their freedom somewhere in the world. Too bad it isn't here...

Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue

You know when even the Taliban thinks you're nuts, you might want to re-think the whole "open to negotiation" policy. Not to mention your pic for SecState.

When a vote has less an .1% difference they should just hold another election on the next regularly scheduled primary or general election. And only the top 2 candidates would be on the ballot.

That would eliminate the nonsense with photo finishes. The odds of 2 consecutive elections for an entire state (or the country) being only a few hundred votes apart would be extremely unlikely.

Not that anyone reading this would throw a crumb of credit his way, but Eric Holder just cleared the path for exonerating convicted former Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) of corruption charges brought and prosecuted during the Bush administration. The fact that prosecutors withheld evidence was cited as the reason for re-evaluating the circumstances of the prosecution by Holder and his Dept of Justice. Maybe it's all a lie by those MSM liberals at CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/01/stevens.case.dropped/index.html?eref=rss_politics

Anon - They held a fresh election (pursuant to the law) in Georgia, and the odius Saxby Chambliss won reelection. You remember Saxby. He's the one who got elected in the first place by using the Rove machinery to paint Max Cleland as an unpatriotic weak-kneed milqutoast. THe problem with Max's knees started when his legs were blown off in Vietnam, I guess. Anyhoo, ol' Saxby was in a too-close-to-call election last November and there was a re-vote. The folks who'd turned out for the Dem's stayed away and Saxby returned to the Senate. Is that the will of the people? Or the power of the incumbent to steamroll an upstart?

Ok, these election laws I understand. At what point do we apply these the laws to do right by the people? With such a large voter reg. advantage in New York's 20 dis., is it not feasible that a slim margin won in favor of Scott Murphy simply won? Yet, this does not explain the "lawsuit" filed prior to polls closing.

Obama's Shocking Press Conference
Http://righteousrantings.blogspot.com

Happy April Fool's Day!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnsXRxOUqEI

Happy April Fools Day!

lol, Obama gives the Queen an iPod, what a cheapo.

"Anonymous at April 1, 2009 12:05 PM"

You mentioned the 2000 election. I must point out AGAIN!!! that the Florida Constitution provides for only ONE recount; there were THREE official recounts, ONE unfinished official recount and FOUR unofficial recounts. Donkey lawyers were evenh alowed to kibitz durring the recounts.

GORE STILL LOST! GET OVER IT!

Snowsnake,
While I agree with your statement, "We can't have it both ways. Obama can't be at the same time a bumbling fool who hasn't a clue and is bewildered by the various demands of actually running something and a scheming clever manipulator who plans on taking complete control of the country and turning us into a liberal wet dream. "

It is possible that His "O"lliness is, in fact, a bumbling fool who hasn't a clue etc. who is owned and controled by a scheming clever manipulator etc. Remember that well known hedge fund manager who is "having a great recession?"

Anon,
In Y2K, it was Comrade Gorebal's people who only wanted the votes in a few heavily democratic and firmly democratic controlled areas re-counted. And they fought to keep military absentee ballets from being counted then as well.

Comrade Gorebal never wanted "all of the votes" counted.

SNOWSNAKE, JUSTAL;

Why can't BO be both bumbling AND brilliant? Bush was, according to the Libs!

The GA re-vote wasn't a result of the candidates being x% amount away from one another, it was a GA law that required the winner to have a majority of the vote (and Saxby had just below, at 49+). A law like that would have led to an automatic re-vote in MN (where they both had 42, I believe).

The one thing to remember though, is that elections come at a price. The CA recall, for example cost somewhere in the ballpark of $50M (http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_recall_faqs.htm#12). Granted, that's not the best example given it's our largest state and we're now talking about a Congressional district, but even GA and MN are relatively large states.

How long will the Left rally around Bush hate? At an anti war rally in Seattle last week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AH0sgE3ow0

Miss Universe exposes Gitmo's ample facilities

"We visited the Detainees (sic) camps and we saw the jails, where they shower, how the recreate themselves with movies, classes of art, books. It was very interesting," she wrote.

"The water in Guantanamo Bay is soooo beautiful! It was unbelievable ... I didnt want to leave, it was such a relaxing place, so calm and beautiful."

The Guantanamo "war on terror" prison opened after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States as a place to house "enemy combatant" suspects.

Mendoza's posting was quickly struck from her blog -- not before the New York Times posted it on its website -- and replaced by a statement from the president of the Miss Universe organization, Paula Shugart.

The comments "were in reference to the hospitality she received while meeting the members of the US military and their families who are stationed in Guantanamo," Shugart wrote.

More thoughtful gifts: Obama gives Queen an iPod even though she already has one

BUT WAIT!!!!

This iPod has Obama's speeches on it!!!

Gordon Brown at Obama's beck and call even after being snubbed (must be from all that practise appeasing British Muslims)

Mr Obama uttered a sentence. Mr Brown nodded. Mr Obama paused. Mr Brown froze, frowning. Mr Obama made a very slight joke. Mr Brown gassed himself, laughing for a good 30 seconds, eyelids fluttering like the wings of a soft-flapping Cabbage White.

Chicken factory pays $1.3 million ransom to Muslims

A federal judge gave approval for Gold'n Plump Inc. and an employment agency to pay $1.35 million to settle lawsuits alleging religious discrimination against Muslims at a chicken processing plant in Cold Spring, Minn.

The money will go to 128 Somali Muslims who claim that St. Cloud-based Gold'n Plump violated their religious rights by refusing to allow them prayer breaks during work hours, and to another 28 workers who said a St. Paul employment agency, the Work Connection Inc., required them to sign forms acknowledging they would be required to handle pork.

Socialism for profit

SNOWSNAKE, JUSTAL;

Why can't BO be both bumbling AND brilliant? Bush was, according to the Libs!

Posted by: KHarn at April 1, 2009 4:18 PM

I've never heard a liberal call Bush brilliant. They would often call him evil, or one of many synonyms for evil, which often baffled me, because i've never heard of an evil doer who was "stupid".

Michael Moron gleeful at GM chief's firing

Posted by: Right0fReagan at April 1, 2009 10:39 PM

I think Kharn was referring to the fact that Bush was called the dumbest of the dumb, yet could somehow manage to pull off the greatest conspiracies in recorded history with apparent ease.

An ipod. For the Queen. I'm so embarassed. My gift idea would be to plant a rose bush in her name in the WH rose garden, put a plaque in the ground saying so and giving her a picture of it. This woman doesn't need any more junk to go into a junk drawer in the castle. Stupid.

Every family has one, don't they? A relative who gives the cheesiest gifts that you just take back. My stepdaughter got her father a cheap Black & Decker pot scrubber which doesn't work. For Christmas! She's always doing stuff like that.

I get better stuff at yard sales.
I could see the Queen with the stupid ear phones looking confused saying "Whats a fiddy cent?"
Dont forget the glossy signed by the glorious couple. "Heres a picture, your majesty,Its of us and we even signed it for you. All the best people have them."
BAAAAAAAAAARRRRFFFFFFFFF

Florida Gov’t Cancels Tea Party Fearing ‘Too Many Attendees’

Second Link

EXCERPT:

And what does it come down to? Money. You see, the city officials want an insurance policy taken out so that organizers can cover any loss that might occur as a result of the rally. And those insurance policies cost hundreds of dollars.

The tea party organizers of Cape Coral, though, aren’t the only ones to find this restriction of their free speech and rights to assemble. Tea party organizers all across the country have begun to find out just how difficult, if not impossible, it is to be “allowed” to exercise their God-given right to speak their minds against government excess and criminality. City governments all across the country are charging fees for “permits,” forcing organizers to pay out huge sums for “insurance policies,” and binding tea party organizers in all sorts of government red tape.

In many instances, organizers are being told that they aren’t “allowed” to hold rallies on government property. Imagine that? We, the taxpayers of the city/state/federal government aren’t “allowed” to gather on property that our own taxes paid for.