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July 23, 2009
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Posted by Van Helsing at July 23, 2009 11:23 AM
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Harvard is broke. Liberal utopianism, hubris, and political correctness are to blame.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 23, 2009 11:35 AM
Nazi Pelousy... LOL!
Posted by: Henry at July 23, 2009 11:55 AM
Hell must be full!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Su_9nk5ua8
Posted by: D. King at July 23, 2009 1:37 PM
Iceland goes bankrupt
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2008/10/iceland_goes_ba.html
Fiscal ruin of the Western world beckons
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/5857074/Fiscal-ruin-of-the-Western-world-beckons.html
Posted by: J at July 23, 2009 2:25 PM
Sergeant Crowley Does His Job and Is Vilified for It!
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.
Police.
Ah!
Sergeant & Police.
When constabulary duty’s to be done, to be done,
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one, happy one.
Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert and Sullivan could have told Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge, MA, Police Department that his “lot is not a happy one,” but Crowley probably already knew that. He certainly knew it after properly investigating a suspected burglary on the afternoon of July 16th.
Acting on a report of a witness who saw ”two black males with backpacks” apparently breaking and entering a private home on Ware Street, Crowley did his assigned duty and sought to question one of the men. It ended up with his arresting the suspect for disorderly conduct.
The rest, as they say, is history, one more incident involving a black man, a white cop, and charges of racism against the cop for simply doing what he gets paid to do. This particular incident has taken on the trappings of a major brouhaha since the suspect turned out to be “renowned black scholar,” Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.
Adding to the farce, black comedian Bill Cosby felt it incumbent to throw in his two cents, at first expressing his shock that the black president of the United States saw fit to jump into the fray during a health care news conference. (Cosby later retracted his shock.)
One must assume the matter somehow qualified as a health care issue.
The president admitted he didn’t know all the facts yet nevertheless saw fit to condemn the Cambridge P.D. and, by inference, Sgt. Crowley, for acting “stupidly” in performing their duty.
He then launched into a mini-diatribe on race relations, saying, “There’s a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately. That’s just a fact:” http://bit.ly/PFluz. (That link includes a video featuring Crowley.)
After it all hit the fan, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs semi-retracted Obama’s “stupidly” comment by saying, “Let me be clear, he was not calling the officer stupid.”
Of course not! It’s just the Cambridge P.D. he was calling stupid. That, too, is a fact.
Now, far be it from me to impugn the chief executive’s motives in calling anyone stupid. Nor would I dare question his manufacturing charges of racial profiling from a minor incident about which he knew next to nothing; he has a penchant for such things.
It struck me, though, that with all the problems on the nation’s plate right now, Obama still felt the need to stupidly and baselessly lambaste some cops.
The fact the matter involved a black may have played a part.
Anyway, the outraged Prof. Gates, who had noisily and verbally abused Sgt. Crowley and who . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)
Posted by: Berlet98 at July 23, 2009 2:49 PM
"Did Michelle Obama start a patient-dumping program?"
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/23/video-did-michelle-obama-start-a-patient-dumping-program/
The corruption and lies are becoming EVEN MORE apparent.
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at July 23, 2009 2:54 PM
"Muslims Could Get Own Police"
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/115757/Muslims-could-get-own-police
sigh...
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at July 23, 2009 2:57 PM
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. "
- Booker T. Washington
Sounds to me as though they continue to enslave their own people and, in doing so, the elites gain power over the masses (sheeple).
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at July 23, 2009 3:03 PM
We are all Crowley The Cop.
I just heard that Gates' house was broken into while he was gone.
In the Boston Herald and Drudge Crowley teaches racial profiling at the police academy!
Callers to Boston talk radio tell stories about Gates being a serial obnoxious individual.
Posted by: Stupid Honky Pigs for Obama at July 23, 2009 3:18 PM
This week marks six months since integrity and honor turned the top job over to fluff and posing!
Posted by: TED at July 23, 2009 3:55 PM
Ted,
That poste made me well up with emotion. Thanks.
The rest of you liberals can get screwed!
Posted by: Dave at July 23, 2009 4:02 PM
I ponder this thought every day...
How can libtards be the (well, say they are) happy-go-lucky, peace-loving, help everyone... kind of people but they're still completely cool with abortion? Isn't this just proof that they're asshats?
Am I the only one baffled by this?
Posted by: Anonymous at July 23, 2009 4:21 PM
"ACORN Files Lawsuit Against Pa. on Voter Registration"
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/acorn_voter_lawsuit/2009/07/23/239183.html?s=al&promo_code=83F9-1
"The suit, filed in federal court in Pennsylvania, seeks to have a state law known as solicitation of registration declared unconstitutional. The law makes it illegal to pay an employee for soliciting voter registrations based on the number of registrations the employee obtains."
Round 'em up, put 'em on a boat, and send 'er our to sea.
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at July 23, 2009 4:30 PM
"64% of California Voters Say Illegal Immigrants Are Major Strain on State Budget"
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/california/64_of_california_voters_say_illegal_immigrants_are_major_strain_on_state_budget
"Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters nationwide say it is Very Important for the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration, but just 32% of America’s Political Class agrees.
Seventy-four percent (74%) of the Political Class say it’s important to legalize the status of illegal immigrants"
Apparently the political class is more important than the will of their constituents. So much for being a government elected BY the people, FOR the people.
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at July 23, 2009 4:48 PM
I've been saying all along. Zombie Conservatism. Eat liberals.
Posted by: Corona at July 23, 2009 4:59 PM
I've been saying all along. Zombie Conservatism. Eat liberals.
The problem would be once you scare the shit out of them all you have is an empty windbag!
Posted by: Bill at July 23, 2009 5:25 PM
"Obama is rapidly turning this country into a totalitarian regime"
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/13120
"... The order that came from an Obama official last week to Amazon to delete 4 books, all on totalitarianism. You may remember Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. They and two other related books were all deleted, so that even if people had already bought them they would have their books disappear."
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at July 23, 2009 5:43 PM
At least 80% of "Climate Change" has natural, non-human causes. Peer-reviewed science, bitches!
Posted by: V the K at July 23, 2009 6:52 PM
Dems Block Republican Health Care Mailing; Attempt to censor chart...
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_12/news/37125-1.html?type=printer_friendly
All in the interest of their often professed love of free speech.
Posted by: Anonymous at July 23, 2009 6:52 PM
"Four Boys Charged in 8-Year-Old Girl's Rape"
http://kfyi.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=118695&article=5777290
"All the children are refugees from the West African nation of Liberia."
This area is primarily Muslim, if I'm not mistaken... Regardless, this would be smeared across the news if "the evil white man" was the attacker. Not a peep on national news stations.
Posted by: AmericanToTheCore at July 23, 2009 7:00 PM
"Peer-reviewed science, bitches!"
Here is the bottom line:
(G)lobal tropospheric temperature has for the last 50 years fallen and risen in close accord with the El-Nino oscillations with a lag time of 5–7 months as shown by a time-series analysis (statistical test that uses a line-of-best fit over time). This demonstrates that natural mechanisms account for most of the temperature variation without accounting for other natural forces such as volcanic activity.
This of course is all a moot point for policy since global warming has become a political and not a scientific issue.
Lesson for today: Because their first premises are always flawed, all of the fundamentals of liberalism depend on lies that will eventually come collapsing down into a pool of putrescent filth.
Posted by: Fiberal at July 23, 2009 7:47 PM
pelosi as the bat .. LMAO!
Posted by: Anonymous at July 23, 2009 8:37 PM
I will continue to check out Moonbattery when I can, but TCD will be on vacation until next week, people. Sorry, got family shit to attend to.
Posted by: Atomic Lib Smasher at July 23, 2009 8:41 PM
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Posted by: BURNING HOT at July 24, 2009 12:42 AM
Harvard is broke. Liberal utopianism, hubris, and political correctness are to blame.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at July 23, 2009 11:35 AM
Lol wonder how their many economics professors who spent the last 6 months decrying the greed and excess of Wall Street feel now.
(Actually I am pretty sure they still feel self-righteous and superior due to their belief in the innate superiority of their liberal ideology)
Posted by: mandible claw at July 24, 2009 1:38 AM
Liberal partisan Susan Estrich opposes Obamacare:
Am I missing something?
We're only talking about our health and our kids' health, the things my mother, may she rest in peace, told me a thousand times are the only things worth caring about. If you have your health, you have everything. And if you don't, what in the world matters more than the best health care in the world, which is found right here?
Not by everybody, mind you, and not cheaply, for anybody. No one's suggesting for a moment that there aren't major problems with both access and cost. But the best health care in the world is still here, and before we take steps that could make things much worse, I'd like to be very certain that they will indeed make things much better.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_susan_estrich/mother_knows_best
Posted by: mandible claw at July 24, 2009 2:34 AM
Oregon, Arizona, Delaware, Hawaii, Wisconsin and Tennessee are among the states that have dipped into their 911 money recently. New York and Rhode Island have been diverting their funds for at least five years. States started collecting the funds in the 1990s.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at July 24, 2009 2:42 AM
Denny's sued for having salty food
A New Jersey man backed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed suit against Denny's Corp. on Thursday, seeking to have the chain disclose in its restaurants the sodium content of its food.
The suit, filed in Superior Court of New Jersey, claims that some meals at Denny's contain more than three days' worth of the recommended amount of sodium. The suit seeks class-action status.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people consume no more than 1,500 milligrams of sodium per day, but the Meat Lover's Scramble, for example, contains 5,690 milligrams of sodium.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at July 24, 2009 2:43 AM
Transexual Freakazoid mayor of Silverton, OR turns up at a speaking engagement in front of students wearing only a bikini top, miniskirt and high heels. Whiny, close-minded parents complain because their kids are now permanently blind after clawing their eyes out
Posted by: V the K at July 24, 2009 4:38 AM
Well, Hillary may not be a zombie for much longer; looks like she's close to being fired: target="_blank">LA Times: Obama 'Close' to Firing Hillary Clinton
Posted by: Phil at July 24, 2009 5:04 AM
expelliarmus html tag! :P
Waterloo begins in earnest: Black voters finally begin to turn against Obama.
I'm almost starting to feel sorry for the guy.
While most African-American voters (56%) still say the country is heading in the right direction, that’s down seven points over the past week.
Posted by: mandible claw at July 24, 2009 5:49 AM
Just checked Rasmussen, he's at -8 on the index...
But check out the right side! For the first time, total approve is LOWER than total disapprove! 49% to 51% respectively. Looks like the country might be starting to wake up.
Posted by: hiram at July 24, 2009 7:54 AM
Global warming 101: Greenhouse gas
According to Wikipedia, greenhouse gases greatly affect the temperature of the Earth; without them, Earth's surface would [most likely] be colder than at present.
Is this a guess, a lie, or a joke?
The average high in Nashua, NH for June was 5.4 degrees [below] normal. The temperature was [cooler], due to all the clouds. June 2009 was the second least sunny June on record with only 27 percent sunshine.
But the average low was only 0.2 degrees warmer than normal for the same reason the daytime high was cool, cloudiness.
This means that the widely accepted belief that water and its vapor, major GHG, WARMS our planet is technically, incorrect. No wonder so many people and computer models are confused. The AGW theory doesn't hold water, figuratively speaking.
With all of the cloud cover (blocking pattern) the jet stream is forced farther south than it should be at this time of year, bringing polar air into the northeast.
Water vapor (GHG) COOLS our planet. It prevents the earth from baking brown. That's why it's called GHG.
Example: A fire cannot begin and it cannot continue unless it has sufficient heat. Heat can be removed from fire by dousing the flames with water. The water turns to steam taking the HEAT with it.
Water vapor, like CO2, is a [product] of warming, not a [producer] of it. Water vapor, ultimately, cools our planet. Water vapor, along with the sun, will dictate our climate, not man. By the way, aren't fire extinguishers made from CO2? :)
Posted by: RICH at July 24, 2009 7:58 AM
My friends, I have been waiting a long, long, long time for this moment. Let us savor it together, slowly, letting it seep in like the chemical flow from an IV that it increasingly looks like we'll still be able to get from our doctor if we need it in the future.
Obama approval rating:
Total approve: 49
Total disapprove: 51
Posted by: mega at July 24, 2009 8:24 AM
Genius president claims that Emperor Hirohito personally surrendered to General McArthur.
But Goatse and anonymous will still insist he's way smarter than Bush.
Posted by: V the K at July 24, 2009 9:02 AM
Gates is the TRUE racist as far as this story goes. If I were to be belligerent to a police officer as he was, I would be in handcuffs too. This self-righteous putz got exactly what he deserved. He thought his status as the "elite" Harvard prof. would save him. Well, he thought wrong and that makes me happy.
Posted by: doog369 at July 24, 2009 8:06 PM
BARACK OBAMA,HILLARY CLINTON,JOE BIDEN,NANCY PELOSI in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DUMB
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at July 25, 2009 9:22 PM

