Jourtegrity Lost

Follow the Money. More Obama Crony Capitalism

2012-02-16T10:01:00.000-05:00

It is amazing how Democrats flocked to Obama thinking they were getting a man of the people. A transparent administration that will be a shining example of integrity and honest government. What they got instead is the most corrupt administration in presidential history. Obama will be the wealthiest ex-president ever with the line up of Wall Street financiers and mega wealthy corporate captains of industry that he has cowed to.

The Washington Post can't even overlook at least one obvious example. The Clean Energy scam is on.

Overall, the Post found that $3.9 billion in federal grants and financing flowed to 21 companies backed by firms with connections to five Obama administration staffers and advisers.

This news, plus the embarassing Solyndra half-billion dollar loss (a loan that the Bush Administration saw as bad financial practice) is merely the tiny tip of a giant iceberg called "The 870 Billion Dollar Stimulus, Where Did it Actually Go?" . Someday we'll get the details. But not now, not from this media.

Another Obama Media Lieutenant David Gregory Reports for Duty

2012-02-12T16:16:00.002-05:00

David Gregory, host of Meet the Press for NBC, couldn't hold Tim Russert's jockstrap. Gregory spends each Sunday morning asking the awkward questions of anybody - candidate or pundit, who would stand in the way of an Obama re-election. Champion of the straw man argument, here's what Gregory decided was a worthy question of Rick Santorum on a major network television show.

Gregory asked Santorum whether, if elected president, he would only permit single women without children to work in his administration. That's right: Gregory was actually wondering whether Santorum would prohibit mothers from serving. Santorum didn't rise to Gregory's absurd bait, giving a smiling and good-natured response to the effect all women would be welcome in a Santorum administration.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2012/02/12/santorum-doesnt-fall-gregorys-bait-banning-working-mothers-his-adm#ixzz1mCx4AqXQ

What a twit. David Gregory, poster boy for the Main Stream Media's approach to the next 8 months.

The Global Warming Scam Continues to Crumble

2012-02-08T19:39:00.000-05:00

Sorry the glaciers and Himalayas are NOT melting. Nevermind.

The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows.
The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that around 50bn tonnes of meltwater were being shed each year and not being replaced by new snowfall.

The ever growing herd of climate change/global warming skeptics have provided reams of research and spoken at thousands of conferences over the last 20 years questioning the entire premise of a warming globe. And more importantly they have disagreed heartily with the premise that CO2 (the very gas that we exhale) is somehow a toxin that is changing the earth.s climate. The only word that comes to mind is bullshit.

Oh, and the polar ice caps are also not melting even as the CO2 gas increases in the atmosphere.

While vast quantities of ice melting into the ocean is not exactly good news, Wahr says, according to his team's estimates, about 30 percent less ice is melting than previously thought.

More Proof That Climate Change is a Big Scam

2012-02-05T21:01:00.003-05:00

At the NOAA- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association they are deep into climate change.
Their very existence apparently depends on us all "believing" in the religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming.

Here's a "survey" the NOAA circulates to its employees. I wonder what the message is?

How likely are you to keep your job if the public is informed that climate change will not affect them or their descendents in a negative manner?

Best climate site on the innertubes, WUWT, has the full story

CBS News Does the DNC's Bidding for 12 Minutes

2012-02-02T11:34:00.003-05:00

The CBS Evening news with Scott Pelley last night was absolutely laughable in its ham-handed bias towards Romney. First 12 minutes were spent enlightening the audience on Romney's supposed gaffe about his lack of concern for "the very poor". Out of context the quote is a tough one for Mitt and we were treated by CBS with an out of context version first (with a poorly truncated edit). On and on the story went with comments from Gingrich, various Dems and chastisement from the reporter in the field. We also got a little collage of Romney's other "insensitive" comments all rolled into one. The next "story" was about how Romney and his SuperPacs are collecting millions to buy the election....After 12 minutes of this we get a :40 story about how Obama was out trying to fix the mortgage crisis with a new "plan".

At 6:30PM each weeknight the big three roll out their 30 minute evening news programs on the East Coast. I have this vision of Obama, Axelrod and the adoring Obamanites all clinking Scotch filled tumblers as they laugh and smile at each other while the networks try to outdo each other in their bastardizing of broadcast journalism for the sake of BHO.

Jake Tapper of ABC news was right when he said "the media tilted the scales toward Obama in 2008". This time around they're already sitting on the scales and the public is getting ripped off far worse.

It's 2 against 1. The Democrats and the Media against the Republicans.

The White House Enemies List

2012-02-01T15:26:00.001-05:00

For those who believe Mitt Romney should lighten up his defense of attacks from his Republican rivals understand this: Obama and his election team will stop at nothing to win. They and the media "who tilt the scales" in Obama's favor will employ every tactic - honest or dishonest to keep Obama in office. Romney is toughening himself up and needs to get stronger every day.

What would you do if the White House engaged in derogatory speculative innuendo about the integrity of your tax returns? Suppose also that the president's surrogates and allies in the media regularly attacked you, sullied your reputation and questioned your integrity. On top of all of that, what if a leading member of the president's party in Congress demanded your appearance before a congressional committee this week so that you could be interrogated about the Keystone XL oil pipeline project in which you have repeatedly—and accurately—stated that you have no involvement?

Ted Olsen is shedding light on the enemies list that Axelrod, Obama et al have developed and are continuing to develop to bring down honest US citizens in order to create the bogeymen that this group of Dems feel is necessary to bring out the vote against the Republican candidate.

Income Inequality Has Drastically Lessened

2012-01-31T14:05:00.004-05:00

There are 40% fewer millionaires now than there were 5 years ago. Millionaires are reporting income that is half of what it was 5 years ago. The percentage of wealth owned by the 1% peaked at 22.8% and is now less than 15%. Tax prof explains it all.

Income inequality is still an issue, but the facts have drastically changed thanks to the recession. The media and OWS should use the newer, more accurate numbers.

Sorry Al, the Real Inconvenient Truths are Piling Up

2012-01-29T09:07:00.000-05:00

The global warming/climate change (what are we calling it this month?) folks have to be feeling a little embarrassed. This 85 billion dollar industry (it can be called nothing else) has thoroughly infused itself into a public awareness in a way that only old wives' tales and urban legends have. With smoke and mirrors. Yet the truth is that we are entering a very natural, cyclical and historically supported period that will be known as the 21st century ice age.

More polar bears, less hurricanes and tornadoes - not more; more antarctic ice and a 15 year period occurring right now when temperatures have not risen, are but a few of the very obvious bits of fact that are pulling the curtain back on a disgusting, expensive propagandic trick.

The second recent batch of Climategate emails proves the scam, hiding behind the proclamation that "it's settled science!", pseudo scientists are giving real scientists a bad name.

Populist Elizabeth Warren is worth 14.5 Million.

2012-01-28T09:25:00.000-05:00

And claims she is "not wealthy". As a person who claims to have created the intellectual framework for the 99%ers of the OWS movement I'd say she may be a little deluded.

hard to see how Warren wouldn't be, by most standards, wealthy, according to the Personal Financial Disclosure form she filed to run for Senate shows that she's worth as much as $14.5 million. She earned more than $429,000 from Harvard last year alone for a total of about $700,000, and lives in a house worth $5 million.

Okay Political "Fact Checkers" Time to Check the Obama SOTU Speech

2012-01-24T22:08:00.001-05:00

The political fact checker has become the new phony name for agenda driven parsing of Republican commentary. The fact checkers have worked overtime with their "pants on fire", "4 pinnochios" cleverness. Each of the leading Republicans have been ridiculed for lies, fabrications and stretching the truth. No democrats have been under such scrutiny. It's open season on Repubs and the Democratic National Committee is laughing up its collective sleeves.

Well the Prez is giving his SOTU speech right now and is spewing economic data that purports that we are basically living in an economic Nirvana. The numbers he's offering up are simply not true.

The political fact checkers, if they are indeed fair fact checkers, will have mountains of information for us tomorrow correcting President Obama.

I shall not hold my breath waiting.

UPDATE:

Surprise, surprise the New York Times fact checking site finds the speech to be pretty darn accurate. Take a look at ANY sentence that actually references comparative numbers "most domestic oil production in 16 years" and on and on and you'll see that they simply don't investigate one single quantitative claim.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/24/us/politics/state-of-the-union-2012-video-transcript.html?hp

Obama's Pipeline Denial Helps Warren Buffet

2012-01-24T13:34:00.004-05:00

One of Warrren Buffet's largest holdings in Berkshire Hathaway is Burlington Northern railroad. Suspiciously Buffett (Obama's close pal) will be rewarded with millions of dollars because Obama won't allow the XL pipeline to be built allowing the railroad to carry the crude and a much higher cost. Was Obama's decision influenced by his relationship with Buffet? Don't expect the mainstream media to bring it up.

The rail option, though costlier, would lessen the environmental impact, such as a loss of wetlands and agricultural productivity, compared to the pipeline, according to the State Department analysis. Greenhouse gas emmissions, however, would be worse.

The devil is always in the details. And a media that's so in the tank for Obama and the Democrats will never dig deep to the one thin layer that let's the sunshine of truth in.

The Gnawing Guilt of Jake Tapper

2012-01-09T10:11:00.000-05:00

I've always liked Jake Tapper of ABC news. He is a member of what most Republicans and some Independents call the Main Stream Media or Legacy Media or some other ungracious moniker. He is the White House correspondent and has had the courage to go nose-to-nose with Republican and Democrat communications lackeys. I wish he would be more contentious than he is, I wish that he would point out the naked emperor with more gusto, but the truth is he can't. Not with what I'm sure is a very short leash from his ABC overlords.

But he clearly feels guilty about how journalism has become so agenda driven and that his agenda is to support Democrats and the Obama administration. ABC is no longer even trying to disguise this fact. The embarrassing performance by George Stephanopoulos at the Republican debate in New Hampshire this past Saturday is the most recent example. Hounding the candidates, primarily Romney, about a contraception issue that doesn't even exist, in lieu of discussing the economy, foreign policy tells you all you need to know about what "the agenda" is. The absolute absence of critique of Obama during the ABC evening news while making sure that at least one or two Republicans are made to look foolish also confirms the bias.

But Jake tries every so often. It's clear that if there is at least one broadcast journalist that has trouble sleeping at night it's Jake Tapper. That may be why on this past weekend's ABC Sunday talk show he said, in referring to the 2008 presidential election, "you had the media, perhaps, tilting on the scales a little bit." (one of the factors "going for Obama"). The collective inhalation of air in the room probably wiggled the huge sound drapes surrounding the set.

I once thought that maybe Jake is a closet conservative who might do well taking his talents to Fox News. But I'm sure he's not. He would feel just as upset at the extreme bias that goes on over there. I actually think he may be what the media really needs - an honest guy who is dying to be the kind of journalist that he must have been inspired to become - neutral, but probing.

One has to wonder how many other Jake Tappers there are out there who could improve their sleep with an occasional honest utterance about media bias? Come home honest journalists, it is you more than politicians, who can bring a divided country together.

Daily Show Nails It

2011-11-18T16:18:00.001-05:00

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Obama Plays Politics on the Pipeline, Strains Canada Relations

2011-11-11T10:43:00.001-05:00

The Obama administration is delaying a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline designed to carry Canadian crude to Gulf Coast refineries for 12 to 18 months, enough time to get past the election next year. Had Obama allowed the pipeline it would have helped the consumer with cheaper energy but angered Democrat donors and possibly voters. It also would have been a great boon to our neighbors to the north. Canadians feel betrayed.

"That a publicly traded Canadian company, with transparent governance and processes based in a free and democratic society can be subject to this kind of treatment does not bode well for companies from other countries seeking to invest in the U.S.

The U.S. companies with operations in Canada, especially those operating in the oilsands, should be feeling mighty betrayed that their own government doesn't appear to understand the economics behind the need for this kind of continental energy infrastructure."

Of course this will also curb oil sands development in North Dakota, an area that was also going to utilize this pipeline. The development in that area is enormous and right now there are 15,000 jobs of all kinds just waiting to be filled.

This pipeline decision will turn that area into a ghost town within a year or two.

But Obama, voting "present" instead of making a decision, is much more concerned with gainin some sort of political advantage.

Gingrich Rising

2011-11-08T09:47:00.004-05:00

Since his Lincoln-Douglas style debate over the weekend Newt Gingrich has gained serious momentum in the Republican presidential primary battle. He leads in the latest Iowa caucus polls. Once considered an also ran and often overlooked as a guy too wonky to appeal to the average Republican Joe, Gingrich is recreating his brand to be more concise, still intelligent, yet understandable. It will continue to serve him well. Depending on how Herman Cain survives the latest MSM onslaught about the sexual harassment charges, Gingrich's fortunes could be boosted sooner rather than later.

Voters in the general election will want someone ready to tackle the deficit, the unemployment mess and to keep an eye on Iran. Gingrich is clearly superior to Romney in perceived foreign policy knowledge (it's all about perception after all) and Romney holds the cards with respect to the economy. Neither are slouches when it comes to either issue, however and this will keep both of them near the front of the pack.

Indeed, a new sensation for Gingrich.

But with the new "flavor of the day" title, Gingrich must gird his loins for the Legacy Media onslaught. Newt has a few skeletons and the Journolisters are busily planning their coordinated attack.

I call BS on the "anonymous accuser" of Herman Cain

2011-11-04T16:57:00.004-04:00

A bright, outspoken black man speaks out against a black president every day. His legitimacy can not be questioned. He cannot be dismissed as most critics of Obama are as "racially motivated". This is very, very scary, troubling, worrisome and annoying to the Democrats and the Washington cabal benefitting every day from the Obama huge government largesse.

Thus, anonymous victims of sexual harassment are dug up to bring this very difficult Republican candidate down.

It's not that Democrats think Herman Cain would ever have a shot at beating Obama. It's that he just Needs. To. Be. Silenced.

Herman Cain. The Latest Liberal Lynching

2011-10-31T15:29:00.004-04:00

Clarence Thomas went through hell in his confirmation to the United States Supreme Court. He is black and conservative. Democrats excoriated him for an unsubstantiated claim by Anita Hill that he liked to make sexually suggestive comments. We were treated to days and days of televised testimony meant to bring this man down. The lynch mob was lead and consisted solely of liberal politicians. Thomas survived these politicians and a bloodthirsty mainstream liberal media to serve as a distinguished voice for constitutionalists on the Court.

There have been other African Americans attacked by liberal politicians and media; Michael Steele, Condoleezza Rice, Cong. Allen West and many others. Liberals believe that African Americans are their voting block, in a weird shall we say, plantation owner way. When a black person doesn't adhere to the democrat party line it's open season.

Just ask Herman Cain.

But Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters, both under indictment for corruption.....nothing to see here, move along. And of course if you should be curious about these two cases...where the evidence has already been proven, you are a racist.

Skin color matters to democrats only when it serves their agenda. And thankfully more and more people of color are figuring that out.

BEST Blows Up

2011-10-30T09:12:00.001-04:00

So last week the BEST program of climate research (Berkeley) announced it's results to an anxious pro global warming media. And surprise surprise this non-peer reviewed study showed consistent warming.
The Economist and all other mainstream media outlets were relieved to announce this information. Humans, they concluded, are clearly heating up the planet with the CO2 gases that are released into the air (breathing and coal plants). Most skeptics of anthropogenic global warming cried foul. No peer review? Only land based data? Note: ocean data, has never indicated warming in any studies. None of this counter commentary made it into the frightening articles that were being written.

But uh-oh the co-author of the study has rocked the boat and in fact may have swamped the tub. The skeptics main complaint is that the last 11 years have shown a flat global temperature completely proving wrong the claim that increased CO2 is warming the planet.

Judith Curry is embarrassed to be associated with this study since it clearly had planned all along to mislead and ignore important information.

Hiatus: Over

2011-10-26T09:14:00.000-04:00

Apologies to Jourtegrity Lost fans. We're back and ready to rock.

Lizzie Warren Channels Al Gore in a Bad PR Week

2011-10-26T08:42:00.000-04:00

So first, candidate for the US Senate Democrat nomination in Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren says she wants "hicks" to vote for her, or at least the "elite hick" voting block. Being a Harvard professor I'm not sure the hicks in Massachusetts are ready to bear the torches for her. Being the only state that voted for George McGovern in '72 the hick vote is presumably fairly small.

Then, in a Daily Beast interview, she claims to have created the "intellectual foundation" for the Occupy Wall Street crowd. Huh? What kind of affliction causes ultra-libs to lay claim to creating, inventing things that really have no tangible genesis?

The issue here is what kind of person is Elizabeth Warren? It seems that inveterate fabricators such as Al Gore (invented the internet and who claimed his life is the basis for A Love Story) can't help themselves. Al still makes wild claims about Global Warming (Florida and Manhattan are doomed to being flooded and so much more nonsense).

What will Elizabeth claim next? Stay tuned.

John Lennon was a Republican

2011-06-29T21:00:00.001-04:00

I get such a kick out of the discoveries of various Hollywood stars as conservative/Republicans. It always makes the lefties freak out just a little. It really is quite delicious. Adam Sandler, Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Gary Sinese, James Woods, Patricia Heaton.... and with the abject failure of the current Dems in the White House and Senate it appears the list is growing.

Here's a doozy. Free love and anti-establishment Beatle John Lennon was a Reagan fan in his later years and was embarrassed with his antics as a young man.

From the Toronto Sun .

Middle America? Just a Bunch of "Low Sloping Foreheads"

2011-06-27T19:48:00.000-04:00

From New York Times columnist David Carr on the Bill Maher show on HBO. No bias or elitism in the Main Stream Media though.

Holy Sh*t.

I Call BS on the RCP Quote from Michelle Obama

2011-06-25T07:09:00.003-04:00

Real Clear Politics has a video from CNN that has Michelle O saying that " we have help from the media" etc.. People who pay attention believe that the Obamas certainly do have help from the media by portraying only positive things and eschewing any negative reporting about the Obama administration. In this case however, RCPs headline is unfair. Michelle O was talking about how the media protects the family's privacy. Knock it off RCP there's plenty of actual bias to report, there is no need to twist the First Lady's words.

From CNN:

On daughters: "Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I am very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy, and in that way, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what-have-you, they care about children, and that's been good to see.

It makes you look silly and of course, biased to the right.

JL's weekly - Imagine if Bush had Said/Done This Moment

2011-06-24T08:25:00.000-04:00

In announcing his accelerated drawdown of troops from Afghanistan President Obama wanted to announce his decision at Fort Drum , you know - to show the troops that Obama is tight with them and has their support. The only problem is he made a very glaring mistake in confusing recent Medal of Honor winners - one alive and one dead.

Blackfive has the story. Imagine if President Bush had made an error like this, the media circus would be in high ridicule mode with much laughing and pointing. Jon Stewart on the Daily Show would wocka-wocka this one for a week. Instead, not a peep.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Al Gore, What a Piece of Work.

2011-06-21T20:00:00.004-04:00

Al in his own words tells a young woman that women need to be empowered to save the planet. How? They need to realize that too many babies ruins the planet. They need to get their contraceptive act together. Al, who has already proven how sensitive he is to womens' issues thinks men don't have any responsibility in this too many babies thing.

Al goes on in his next clip telling us all about the terrible droughts in Arizona, Texas and Russia and about the terrible floods along the Mississippi and in Australia. The great thing about Global Warming activists like Al is that droughts AND floods are to be blamed by CO2 and that lots of snow and no snow are the fault of CO2 and that a month with lots of tornadoes followed by a month with nearly no tornadoes....well you get the idea. But most importantly of course, this all makes Al very, very rich.

My daughter is a mega-feminist (and I'm pretty pro most of the feminist agenda myself). She's also a global warminista and thinks Al Gore is a peoples' champion, but with this tripe above and the "sex-crazed poodle" stuff, when do you step back a bit and call an idiot an idiot?

ObamaCare Waivers Do Not Disproportionately Favor Unions

2011-06-16T10:46:00.000-04:00

Much of the whining and kavetching about ObamaCare waivers going to unions is apparently misplaced. Data show that unions are denied at a fairly high rate and that the denials and acceptances seem to be directly related to health plan costs. So conservative bloggers etc - chill about this.

From Investor's Business Daily

Jay Carney, Baghdad Bob of Washington

2011-06-15T15:28:00.002-04:00

How do you take a job like this? Robert Gibbs, Obama's first press secretary was such a snarky jerk that you wanted to leave a flaming bag of dog waste on his doorstep and ring the doorbell. This new guy Jay Carney is not so snarky yet, but you can almost hear the snark bacteria making its way from Gibbsy's old letter opener onto Carney's presidential seal coffee mug. It's coming.

Here's how Jay responded to a question at the press briefing about the debt ceiling.

And I would just remind people that the vote to raise the debt ceiling is not a vote for spending. It is a vote to pay our debts, to pay our obligations. And we are the largest economy in the world, the most important economy in the world, absolutely vital to the successful functioning of the financial markets. And this is about being responsible.

Being responsible. Wow

Barack Obama, just another pol.

2011-06-15T09:08:00.001-04:00

Rahm and Barack brought their brand of ChicagoLand pay-as-you-go politics to Washington after promising to bring hope and change. It is the worst kind of bait and switch and the voters of all stripes took the bait hook, line and sinker. The Obama White House is as corrupt as it gets but Barack's media protectors continue to lie about this administration. It is truly unbelievable.

Most of the stimulus money went to pay off Barack's supporters.

More than two years after Obama took office vowing to banish “special interests” from his administration, nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, an investigation by iWatch News has found.

These “bundlers” raised at least $50,000 — and sometimes more than $500,000 — in campaign donations for Obama’s campaign. Many of those in the “Class of 2008” are now being asked to bundle contributions for Obama’s reelection, an effort that could cost $1 billion.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56993.html#ixzz1PLiAneff

Such promise, such failure. Read the whole thing at Politico, it is so disheartening.

Next Investigative Task? Help WaPo, NY Times, HuffPo and the Guardian - Parse the Book of Mormon

2011-06-13T10:09:00.001-04:00

Given that the scouring of the 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails by the above named pillars of journalism has resulted in no scathing corruption, embarrassment or indictiment of the Palin family, it is time for said muckrakers to turn their attention to Mitt Romney as he has been annointed the early front runner for the Republican presidential nomination.

Please help the leftist media devour some more light reading. The price is too high, the potential damage is too great - get your Kindles, Nooks and Ipads out and find out what devilish dogma Romney has been living by his whole life. Read every page of the Book of Mormon and get back to us. It is your duty as a US citizen to enlighten the masses with every bit of horrific right wing propaganda that you can!

And oil up those torches and sharpen up those pitchforks because if we don't take down any Republican challenge to Obama things could really get bad around here!

The Madness Continues. We Must Defeat the Monster Palin Together!

2011-06-10T11:41:00.002-04:00

Sarah Palin holds no political office. Sarah Palin is not running for President. Sarah Palin did not text sexually suggestive pictures of herself to young men. Sarah Palin is not the dictator of some Middle Eastern country that is under siege by revolutionaries. Sarah Palin is not responsible for the worst economic times our country has suffered in 80 years. Sarah Palin is not.....well you get the point by now.

The New York Times and the Washington Post have decided that Sarah Palin's emails as Governor of Alaska are akin to the Pentagon Papers in their import to the readers of their respective boutique newspapers. They want a FULL and THOROUGH investigation of the emails.

That's journalism today folks, emails from Sarah Palin trump probably 30 or 40 other stories that might help to give readers insight as to why our economy sucks, our president is inept, and why we are dropping bombs illegally on Libya and Yemen.

It would be funny if it weren't so insanely pitiful. The Times and WaPo ...all the news that's fit to spit.

Update: Jon Stewart pulls back the curtain. See imbedded video above.

Check out Ryan's Medicare Plan Video

2011-05-26T11:42:00.003-04:00

Rep Paul Ryan head of the House Budget Committee is privy to the very paltry numbers on which our government is currently propped. Entitlements are killing us and they simply need reform. Dems and a few Repubs have voted down his plan to correct the Medicare problem. They're very proud and sure that this is the method that will win them back the House. And it might, because the media will support their scare tactics that will have seniors believing that Medicare and Social Security will disappear in this plan.

Truth is, we are on the road to ruin and will have a collapse of our economy and governement underpinnings on a par with Greece, Italy, Portugal, Iceland and several other European countries that have unsustainable socialist programs that rival Medicare and Social Security.

Kicking the can down the road (to borrow a well worn phrase) without any attempt to fix the problems of the deficit and entitlements is what Obama and the Dems want to do. The only person with courage enough to even suggest that changes need to be made in Medicare is Ryan. His you tube video is worth spending under 5 minutes on.

JL's weekly - Imagine if Bush had Said/Done This Moment

2011-05-26T11:05:00.002-04:00

Obama so badly screwed up a scheduled toast to the Queen in his trip to England that everyone present shuddered with embarassment. Apparently Obama was so proud that he memorized the last 3 words of his index card notes that he placed them down, triggering the orchestra. The toast was finished with the orchestra playing loudly, Obama put down his drink and no one actually drank the toast.

This kind of moment if generated by the previous president would lead all the network news shows and be fodder for MSNBC, the Daily Show and all the other left leaning media (that is to say 95% of the media) for weeks.

Obama does not take kindly to criticism as we've discovered. I'm beginning to think the Obama ineptitude coverup is beyond just liberal bias, I think it extends to self preservation. Check out what happens when you criticize the King.

JL's Weekly - The Headline You Won't See in the MSM Is...

2011-05-26T10:50:00.001-04:00

The Expected Jump in the Readjusted First Quarter GDP to 2.2% from 1.8% Didn't Actually Happen.

The rate stayed at 1.8% but NPR touted that we would see a jump to 2.2% in it's top stories this morning. That is until the actual report came out.

Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2011, (that is, from the fourth quarter to the first quarter), according to the "second" estimate released by the Bureau
of Economic Analysis. In the fourth quarter, real GDP increased 3.1 percent.

The GDP estimates released today are based on more complete source data than were available for the "advance" estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the increase in real GDP was also 1.8 percent

We are deep into Obama's 3rd year of his presidency and the economy is stagnant. 17.3 million people are out of work yet the Main Stream Media is still trying to prop up this administration's horrible economic policies.

More great numbers you won't see.

Real imports of goods and services increased 7.5 percent, in
contrast to a decrease of 12.6 percent compared to the previous quarter.

Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment decreased 7.9 percent in the first quarter, compared with a decrease of 0.3 percent in the fourth.

Newt Bounces Back

2011-05-24T10:33:00.005-04:00

Gingrich looked punch drunk after the Tea Party roughed him up when he criticized Paul Ryan's deficit reduction package. His poll numbers were at 6% and pundits were counting him out as recently as the past weekend. But...Newt saw the error of his ways, and came out with a resounding Tea Party flavored plan that pulls no fiscal punches. It includes; eliminating the estate tax, eliminating the capital gains tax, and lowering the corporate tax to 12.5% among other conservative fiscal machinations. This plan is real, and there will be no going back. He spoke on CNBC.

I think this plan by Newt will reinvigorate his campaign and sends a message to the Tea Party ("I'm your guy") and to the other candidates ("State your plans clearly or risk looking indecisive.").

Newt has shaken things up.

The Iron Political Fist of Barack Obama

2011-05-24T09:48:00.000-04:00

He's a hard nosed politician borne of Chicagoland politics where you "punish your enemies" and "reward those that stand beside you" - Obama's own words. Why would it surprise us that he wants to know exactly where potential federal contractors spend their political dollars? What better way to separate your friends from your enemies? Senator Mitch McConnell thinks Obama's latest threatened executive order is heinous.

“Now, under the guise of ‘transparency,’ the Obama administration reportedly wants to know the political leanings of any company or small business, including those of their officers and directors, before the government decides if they’ll award them federal contracts.”

Stalin would be proud. Thomas Jefferson not so much.

Netanyahu's Speech to AIPAC was not a Love Poem to Obama

2011-05-24T09:26:00.000-04:00

As the Main Stream Media reported it. Yes, he took the high road and did not disparage Obama as he clearly could have for Obama's speech last week demanding a return to the 1967 borders which essentially would re-divide Jerusalem. He basically said he thought Obama was a friend of Israel. That had to be a bitter statement to spit out.

What he also said was, of course, not reported in the Main Stream Media. It was a clear and cogent explanation of the Israel/Palistine issue.

It’s time to stop blaming Israel for all of the region’s problems.

Let me stress one thing.

Peace between Israelis and Palestinians is a vital need for us.

Peace would be the realization of a powerful and eternal dream.

But it is not a panacea for the endemic problems of the Middle East.

It will not give women in some Arab countries in the Middle East the right to drive a car.

It will not prevent Churches from being bombed.

It will not keep journalists out of jail.

What will change all this? One word.

Democracy. Real, genuine, democracy.

By democracy, I don’t just mean elections.

I mean Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press. Freedom of Assembly.

The Rule of Law. Rights for women, for gays, for minorities, for everyone.

What the people of the Middle East need is what you have in America, and what we have in Israel.

Democracy.

It’s time to recognize this basic truth:

Israel is not what’s wrong about the Middle East.

Israel is what’s right about the Middle East.

My Friends,

Israel wants peace because we know the pain of terror and the agony of war.

We want peace because we know the blessings peace could bring to us and to our Palestinian neighbors.

But if we hope to advance peace with the Palestinians, then it is time that we admitted another truth.

This conflict has raged for nearly a century because the Palestinians refuse to end it.

They refuse to accept the Jewish state.

This is what this conflict has always been about.

There are many issues that must be resolved between Israelis and Palestinians.

We can and must resolve them.

But I repeat. We can only make peace with the Palestinians if they are prepared to make peace with the Jewish state.

George Soros has Control of Your Brain

2011-05-18T11:18:00.005-04:00

While a critic of biased journalism, I freely admit that Fox News is biased in a rightward fashion. But facts are stubborn things. The Fox website is in the middle of a 3 part expose of George Soros mega-billionaire- socialist and his financial iron grip on American media. For instance, Soros is the largest single funder of Columbia School of Journalism.

Soros funds more than just the most famous journalism school in the nation. There are journalism industry associations like:

• The National Federation of Community Broadcasters;

• The National Association of Hispanic Journalists;

• And the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Readers unhappy with Soros’ media influence might be tempted to voice concerns to the Organization of News Ombudsmen – a professional group devoted to “monitoring accuracy, fairness and balance.” Perhaps they might consider a direct complaint to one such as NPR’s Alicia Shepard or PBS’s Michael Getler, both directors of the organization. Unfortunately, that group is also funded by Soros. At the bottom of the Organization of News Ombudsmen’s website front page is the line: “Supported by the Open Society Institute,” a Soros foundation. It is the only organization so listed.

It's as if we're all unwitting protagonists in the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Everywhere you turn to report extreme journalism bias is run by people with extreme journalism bias. The movie Serpico also comes to mind.

The Obama White House is far more Nixonian than Nixon's was

2011-05-18T08:06:00.004-04:00

If you control the media you control the people. Socialist Saul Alinksy knew this and so does the Obama administration. It's not enough that research shows that 85% of "journalists" consider themselves liberal and the media treatment of Democrats and Obama proves it, but the heavy handed nature of media control by Obama is getting out of hand.

The White House Press Office has refused to give the Boston Herald full access to President Obama’s Boston fund-raiser today, in e-mails objecting to the newspaper’s front page placement of a Mitt Romney op-ed, saying pool reporters are chosen based on whether they cover the news “fairly.” “I tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the White House regularly and fairly in determining local pool reporters,” White House spokesman Matt Lehrich wrote in response to a Herald request for full access to the presidential visit.

The young kids and white haired liberal fat cats who support this guy are getting jobbed and of course they neither see it, or if they do, they won't accept it. It's the worst kind of herd mentality. I'm embarrassed for Obama supporters and disgusted with the media.

It Pays to Support Pelosi

2011-05-17T10:06:00.005-04:00

So the latest batch of waivers for ObamaCare included 38 businesses in Nancy Pelosi's district. You probably didn't catch that little fact in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post or the hundreds of other legacy media outlets. It's a bit of a sticky wicket that is simply not "fit to print".

So let's do the math of fairness...38 companies times 435 congressional districts means 16,530 companies should get waivers for ObamaCare! Then the Senators...I wonder what they're expecting?

It pays to be a FON - Friend of Nancy.

Not a Peep from the Liberal Press

2011-05-16T09:56:00.004-04:00

Apparently it is more important for the press to report for weeks on President Obama's series of victory laps on the Osama Bin Laden death than it is to do actual reporting.

Union thugs have been accused of beatings and other harassment by some members of their rank and file for reporting illegal union schemes. Unions have always been for the people who run them and not for the workers who contribute giant union dues to prop them up.

The main stream media thinks there's nothing to see here - just move along.

The BBC comes clean

2010-09-02T20:57:00.003-04:00

The BBC has today admitted to a "massive bias to the left" for decades. This is like pulling a card from the bottom of the house of cards that has propped up the elite leftist global journalism that includes the likes of New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press and on and on.

Add this to the Journolist names that are being revealed and we have blatant damning evidence of the far left media cabal that Jourtegrity Lost has been whining about for two years.

All those who have denied the existence of this massive bias now look like either fools or liars.

Come home journalists, come home. Let your confessions set you free.

Obama has lost my respect.

2010-07-26T20:29:00.005-04:00

At a ribbon cutting for a battery making plant Obama ridiculed the Republican Congressman from the district in which the plant exists in a way that can only show how clueless this man truly is.

Powerlineblog tells the story. Please read it all. What an embarrassment your president has become.

The first president to ridicule the Supreme Court in his state of the union message also, you may remember.

Update:
Just to sully the office a bit more Obama becomes the first sitting president to appear on a daytime talk show. I want my president to be working on problems not appearing on daytime talk shows and playing golf at a rate already 50 times more frequently than his predecessor who was excoriated for playing golf 8 times in his 8 years in office.

American Thinker rounds up the classless missteps of Pres Obie.

I Told You So. (Can't think of any other way to put it)

2010-07-23T09:02:00.005-04:00

This blog started in November of 2008.

The impetus was some absolutely mind numbing lefty bias run rampant in the media that made me think something was up. Journalists almost appeared to be colluding to bring down the Republican candidates for President and Vice-President and to completely ignore the inexperience and ultra egotistical nature of the Democratic candidate for President. Not to mention how they somehow missed the absolute joke of a vice-presidential candidate and his blowhard, plagiarizing history. Cindy McCain was outed as a recovering alcoholic and Sarah Palin mocked as a no nothing female mannequin. Katie Couric, Tina Fey, Charles Gibson were the most visible vicious attack dogs against Palin but behind the scenes, and rampant in every op-ed story, and most shockingly in actual "news" stories - was a cadre of "journalists" doing the daily bidding of the Democratic National Committee.

It was then that I thought Jourtegrity (my little made up name) died. And I was oh so very right.

The Journolist bombshell exploded a few days ago with Tucker Carlson's the Daily Caller blog outting some Journolist emails - and more will be coming out frequently, I presume. From these emails we learn that liberal journalists colluded, every day, to create a consistent message of anti-Republican, anti-conservative "news". It was a complete and thorough annihilation of everything journalism is supposed to represent.

And remarkably, no one I know who isn't at least moderately conservative, has had a whiff of this shocking story in the main stream media or on lefty websites. No single story is being more covered up than this one.

Journolisters covering up Journolisters' asses.

Fred Barnes gives his take on just one angle that included him in the attack plan.

The Tax Man Cometh. Big Time

2010-07-23T08:25:00.002-04:00

There are a dizzying array of taxes attached to ObamaCare and the newly passed Financial Reform Act (which reforms nothing but continues to support the concept of "too big to fail" for the banks that don't need the help). In addition, the Bush tax cuts, that gave a disproportionately beneficial break to lower income groups (despite the Journolisters efforts to tout otherwise) are set to expire at the end of this year.

The tax bite will hit the middle class the hardest with child care credits, tuition breaks and alternative minimum taxes providing the biggest hits. Hey someone's got to pay for the public employees who now enjoy a 2 to 1 ratio of better pay $74,000 to $38,000 over private employees.

Investor's Business Daily sums up the bad news.

Hey Biden and Obama THIS is a big *&#$^#ING Deal!

2010-05-22T10:28:00.002-04:00

Over a month and the Obama administration continues to trust BP to do the right thing in stopping the oil leak. Pressing Cap and Trade, Immigration and covering up the leaks about the impending Health Care debacle is more important than stopping the greatest environmental disaster to hit this planet - right here in our very own Gulf of Mexico.

We have a Navy, a Coast Guard and the smartest scientists on the planet - yet we don't use our tremendous resources and ingenuity to stop a devastating oil leak.

Obama this isn't your Katrina, this is proof you are totally clueless and incapable of reacting to anything domestically and internationally.

Nice smart diplomacy on the North Korean murder of South Korean seamen, also.

How long can the media continue to cover this guy's behind?

Remember November

2010-04-25T08:09:00.003-04:00

You know, I kind of like Obama as Dad, Husband, guy who sneaks a cigarette and has an interest in sports. I think he thinks what he is doing is right. But this bloated ,extreme one-sided government echo chamber in Washington has instilled this belief in him that he is an emperor who is always right. Well so far, he has been nearly always wrong. The sycophants need to go and Mr Obama will find out what it means to rule a democratic nation.

Remember November.

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Tired of Hearing That Tea Partiers are All White?

2010-04-19T20:02:00.002-04:00

So are a lot of black folks.

The race thing is so lame. Wake up liberal "journalists" this meme has run its course.

The Obama Administration is Killing Jobs and Stunting the Economy

2010-04-17T07:52:00.004-04:00

Academic economists are boring. This we know. They don't get quoted on the nightly news (unless they're Obamanomics apologists like the neurotic Paul Krugman). The linked post below takes a thorough detailed, deeply researched-based look at taxes versus spending and the conclusion is; Obama is killing our economy.

In the end, the middle class will scramble to simply survive. Obama is creating a new America alright - the very rich and the very poor.

All You Need to Know About Jourtegrity in the Main Stream Media

2010-04-17T07:21:00.003-04:00

What was the name of the journalism class that Kelly O'Donnell attended that taught this brilliance? Tell me again which party is more concerned about skin color?

What a disgrace.

HealthCare Reform Passes In a Partisan Vote

2010-03-24T18:51:00.002-04:00

219-212

And a populace that was against it. 54% to 44%. I have lost my faith in democracy.

Sorry. I got nuthin.

Indiana No Longer Makes Anything, But We Get Bayh

2010-03-19T12:51:00.003-04:00

"For the first time since before the Civil War and perhaps ever, more people in Indiana work in government than in all the factories in the state.

Rocked by layoffs, imports and automation, workers in Indiana plants numbered 430,800 in January, while government at all levels, including schools and publicly owned hospitals, employed 442,800 workers."

From Instapundit

This fact probably wasn't going to sit too well in Bayh's now non-existent re-election bid.

Indiana is surely not the only state now reliant on government employment to keep them afloat.

Let's not call it socialism though, that's so unfair.

Please Stop Barack, You're Embarassing Yourself

2010-03-16T21:36:00.004-04:00

The goofiness is spiraling out of control.....

"How many people are getting insurance through their jobs right now?

Raise your hands.

All right. Well, a lot of those folks, your employer it's estimated would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent, which means they could give you a raise."

Inveterate liar. This is what our president is. Remember the android on-board physician in Alien?
Spinning around, white fluid spewing from his mouth, short circuited inaudible emanations. Spouting nonsense, clearly out of control.

Nixon talked to the portraits of dead presidents when he was alone at night. What do you think Obama does?

Maybe they should just pass the damn bill, this guy is scaring the hell out of me.
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High School Kids Aren't Really Paying Much Attention

2010-03-14T08:24:00.005-04:00

That's why Obama had his pro-ObamaCare rallies in high school gyms this week. When you tell school kids you're "fired up" about health care reform they're going to cheer because they got out of English class to be there. In fact, the one rally at a college was closed to the press - ya never know what those dern college kids might do - we might find a dissenter or two in there.

But adults, the ones paying attention, know that when the baby carriage is careening down the hill towards the expressway it's not the time to say "I need to go home and clean those gutters, right now."

Despite the adoring media covering Obama's tracks at every turn, discerning adults are getting the message. They know that the Obama administration has proven to be inept and promises about healthcare costs falling and care rising, are either pipe dreams or lies.

Exhibit #1

Cash for Clunkers

The Obama administration set aside 1 billion dollars for Cash for Clunkers, an environmental bill that would also stimulate the economy - hopefully for the two car companies Obama now owns; GM and Chrysler.

The 1 billion was to last for 5 months it would not only stimulate the economy, but create jobs. Unfortunately, bad planning made a mockery of the program. The assigned money ran out in 10 days.
Two more billion dollars were added and the program still didn't make it to 5 months.

The results were that we took hundreds of thousands of still operating vehicles off the road, purposely seizing up the engines so they could never run again, (that poorer familiers would have loved to have a chance at buying for small money) and replaced them with cars that in some cases were actually less efficient. Four of the top car companies benefiting were foreign owned and the one that was an American car company,Ford is owned by filthy capitalists.

Dealerships and private repair shops had to lay off auto mechanics all over the country because there were thousands of fewer cars to repair. Yes, car sales spiked but it was merely drawing buyers in early. Sales fell for four months in a row afterward.

So, we have an Obama designed program, designed to socialize an industry, just like ObamaCare, that had its budget tripled and the results were nothing like we were told they would be.

Based on this utter failure we're supposed to believe the budget projections for ObamaCare? Tripled budget anyone?

Reason #2

The Stimulus Plan

An 862 Billion dollar aid bill signed within 10 days of Inauguration. We were told this program would create or save 3 million jobs in the first year and total 5 million jobs created or saved by the 2nd year. Unemployment rates would never surpass 8% and would begin dropping by June of last year. If we didn't pass the Stimulus bill the rate would surely go to 9.2%!

With the Stimulus bill the unemployment rate peaked at 10.4% and 13 months into the bill it is at 9.7%. Estimates of jobs saved or created range from 650,000 to 1.5 million. Here's a real number; 16.8% of people who want full time employment don't have it. and the extra neat feature... general populace 9.7% unemployment - federal jobs increase 8%.

And who has time to talk about the pork and corruption rampant in this bill?

So, another Obama carefully planned program woefully inept and outrageously overhyped.

Two programs, two dismal failures. Snake oil or ineptitude?

Does it matter? Let's save the baby and clean out the leaves later.
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It's the Economy, Stupak!

2010-03-12T09:02:00.002-05:00

Prediction.

The Pro-Life Stupak 12 Democrats who have professed to vote no on ObamaCare will suddenly collapse when a back-door "guarantee" will be given to the Bartster by big Nan and the O-Man removing the potential for federally funded abortion. This will be a trick of course, as the bill can then be passed with no amending whatsover in either the "reconciliation" or "Slaughter" style of ram-through.

'Ol Bart will be left holding the bag, but the massive porkulus that will no doubt be included in the promise will soothe the pain.

Truth is, if Rep. Stupak is really concerned about the unborn, he'd realize the damage to this economy by this bill will ruin more lives in the long run than the amendment he holds so dear.

It's a far more compelling reason to stick to the no vote threat.

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Stranger than Fiction

2010-03-09T21:54:00.001-05:00

Nancy Pelosi says it best

Our politicians at work in the most "transparent process ever".

I Don't Remember Al Gore Mentioning This

2010-03-07T08:32:00.004-05:00

THE SAHARA TURNING TO A LUSH GREEN

From National Geographic (one just can't tell where the next AGW skeptics will come from!):

"Desertification, drought, and despair—that's what global warming has in store for much of Africa. Or so we hear.

Emerging evidence is painting a very different scenario, one in which rising temperatures could benefit millions of Africans in the driest parts of the continent.

Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall.

If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities.

This desert-shrinking trend is supported by climate models, which predict a return to conditions that turned the Sahara into a lush savanna some 12,000 years ago."

Makes a lot of sense really. The last natural Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago and we have been warming since (with natural peak/valley cycles in between).

You'd think more car companies would be bragging about how their CO2 spewing vehicles have been around for 12 millenium.

1.2 Million New Federal Workers to Deflate Unemployment Rate

2010-03-05T08:22:00.002-05:00

Just in time to rescue the Obama administration's inflated stimulus jobs claims, 1.2 million census workers are putting on their federal overalls and will be marching up to your doorstep to count you. It's a tough task, counting, and has become tougher obviously, because in 2010 we'll use twice as many people to do the job as we did in 2000.

That oughta bring that unemployment rate down (at least during this election year anyway).

Eventually the counting will get done and then these folks will need to get real jobs. Prize to anyone who can think up 1.2 million new, equally non-productive federal jobs so that the unemployment numbers can get a boost during the Prez' campaign for re-election that will start next year.

I'm thinking shovellers. Since Global Warming causes snowstorms (who knew?)we'll need people to shovel out the federal buildings.
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That hip new grass roots counter to the Tea Party "the Coffee Party" started by.......

2010-03-04T10:55:00.003-05:00

....the New York Times.

Annabel Park - concerned, sincere documentary filmmaker who started the Facebook page for the Coffee Party and wants us all to know that lefties are banding together too...is employed as a strategist for the NY Times (who first reported about this incredible grassroots phenomenon!).

What a coincidence! Thanks, Big Journalism.

The New York Times...."All the news - that we create"
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Advice for Obama from Abraham Lincoln

2010-03-04T10:06:00.004-05:00

Barack Obama is smarter than we are. He clearly believes that these silly polls that show that the disenchantment with his healthcare plan ranges from 54% to 79% are either wrong or meaningless.

Abe Lincoln has this bit of advice from a campaign speech he gave in 1860.

"With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment, goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions."

Oh and since one might complain that Lincoln is a Republican, let's see what JFK had to say on the issue.

"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

Reconciliation? Go ahead, Barack, I can't wait.

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NY Times says "No Global Warming in US Since 1895"!

2010-03-02T10:50:00.005-05:00

Alright, so the article was written in 1989. But doesn't that refute the current premise? Uh, er, no.

See what Hansen (current Global Warmist poobah) had to say to negate this. It's unbelievably hilarious.

Another possibility, he said, was that there were special conditions in the United States that would tend to offset a warming trend. For example, industrial activity produces dust and other solid particles that help form liquid droplets in the atmosphere. These droplets reflect radiation away from Earth and thus have a cooling influence.

Notice that Dr. James Hansen is saying that industrial activity drives down the temperature of the Earth.

So doesn’t that mean we need more rather than less industrial activity?

Tell me this isn't all about the billions in research money available only for "believers"

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP

Hat tip to sweetness-light.com

The Institute of Physics Delivers Deadly Blow to Global Warming

2010-02-28T08:11:00.003-05:00

The Institute of Physics, a UK organization of 36,000 respected physical scientists takes a bold step condemning the science that has fed the Anthropogenic Global Warming machine.

"The CRU e-mails as published on the internet provide prima facie evidence of determined and co-ordinated refusals to comply with honourable scientific traditions and freedom of information law. The principle that scientists should be willing to expose their ideas and results to independent testing and replication by others, which requires the open exchange of data, procedures and materials, is vital. The lack of compliance has been confirmed by the findings of the Information Commissioner. This extends well beyond the CRU itself - most of the e-mails were exchanged with researchers in a number of other international institutions who are also involved in the formulation of the IPCC's conclusions on climate change."

The Institute of Physics has existed for over a hundred years and is the most respected organization of its kind. The submission, delivered to the British governmental inquiry into the CRU email fraud, is a withering condemnation of what is now believed to be systematic scientific fraud designed to dupe lay people and fence sitters in the scientific community by fabricating supportive data and ignoring unsupportive data. True scientists are enraged by this.

One wonders how scientists who aren't enraged could still be considered to believe in the scientific method.

Olbermann the self-absorbed jerk, extraordinaire

2010-02-24T08:00:00.007-05:00

I know that wasting pixels on this waste of good oxygen is not productive, but I can't help myself.

The Dallas Tea Party folks have created a clever video in response this nitwit's accusation of racism. It warms your heart.

With his ratings going downhill faster than Lindsay Vonn you wonder why they keep this stooge on the payroll. I'm betting ol' Keith already knows that the writing is on the wall and is preparing a principled departure based on "creative differences".

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The Skeptics Manifesto

2010-02-23T08:59:00.003-05:00

At the blog "I Have a Title for This" the Anthropogenic Global Warming skeptic's manifesto has been developed. It saves us all alot of work. It has "75 reasons to be skeptical global warming" and each and every comment is backed up with a research-based link.

It is thorough and damning in a way that will make warmists cringe. Take this list to your next carbon footprint party and the conversation will have two sides for a change.

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A Song of ClimateGate Frustration

2010-02-18T15:21:00.002-05:00

CEI puts out a clever ditty that puts a big, broad smile on your face. Or at least it did mine. Enjoy.
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Drowning in Red Ink

2010-02-17T17:02:00.004-05:00

The Obama administration thinks borrowing more money to create spindly legged job programs will get us out of the unemployment problem. So far the most optimistic forecast for the unemployment problem is that we have created or SAVED up to 2 million jobs since last February 17th when the 800 billion dollar stimulus bill was rammed through Congress with nary a Republican vote or one single person having read it.

The CBO says that that number may actually be as low as 600,000.

Two million jobs gained but we haven't had a single job growth month yet. The unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent when it was 7 percent the day Obama was elected. Somebody's lying.

So let's spend some more money to fatten the wallets of politicians and keep their progeny employed. Federal jobs increased by 8% while the national unemployment rate stayed at 10%.

And now this. Via ABC News

"Economic forecasters say future generations of Americans could have a substantially lower standard of living than their predecessors' for the first time in the country's history if the debt is not brought under control.

Government debt, which fuels the risk of inflation, could make everyday Americans' savings worth less. Higher interest rates would make it harder for consumers and businesses to borrow. Wages would remain stagnant and fewer jobs would be created. The government's ability to cut taxes or provide a safety net would also be weakened, economists say."

And they wonder where these crazy tea partiers are coming from.
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More Stimulus Job Losses

2010-02-15T13:02:00.003-05:00

Evan Bayh of Indiana is not running for his Senate seat again. There are rumblings about a number of other veteran Democrats who will be abandoning their seats. It's a great time for Democrats to retire.

Why? Because the wild spending is stirring up the great unwashed voters enough to pressure their fat cat representatives? Perhaps. But it is not the overriding factor.

The Stimulus bill of February 2009 and the Omnibus budget bill of 2009 are the real reasons. Together they represent over 1.2 trillion dollars of NEW money. The pork projects within make up the largest Democrat wish list of the last few decades. Billions upon billions are available for Democrat politicians to dole out in their districts. Cousins, nephews, brother-in-laws, sons, daughters, paramours and local businesses are flooded with government largesse like never before and you can bet that "payback" in the form of "greenbacks" are waiting for the pols who brought home the bacon.

Cry not for the ever growing list of Democrat politicians going into "retirement". They will soon be wealthier than they have ever been in their lives.

Global Warmists lay claim to all types of weather

2010-02-12T15:24:00.007-05:00

Well it turns out you can't disprove global warming hysteria with a long string of fraudulent claims coming out of the global warming research community. Check out http://www.climatedepot.com/ to see the mountains of evidence of fraud.

And now you also can't disprove global warming hysteria with weather events or climate trends. Because both ABC news (Obama shills extraordinaire) and TIME magazine (Obama graced the cover 35 plus times in one year) say that - you won't believe this...Large snowstorms are caused by global warming.

Pointing out that Global Warming is an absolute fraud is not a fie on Obama. Europe, and even the BBC for god's sake have figured this out. This is out of hand. Someone's got to wake up the Stonewall News Media and get this sh** straightened out. It's not funny anymore.

How the hell do these people sleep at night?

UPDATE: Shocker: Chief Climate Scientist says there has been no warming since 1995
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Every time someone tells you Republicans are racist read this.

2010-02-08T14:09:00.005-05:00

From Big Journalism. A quiz. Because the Stonewall News Media says it's so doesn't mean it is. In fact, calling tea partiers and anyone who doesn't agree with the current president "racist" seems to be all they have left.

I like this one.

"Answer #9. 82% of the Republican Senators voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while 69% of the Democrat Senators voted “Yes.”

Try to remember how the press and Democrat pundits treated Condi Rice during the Bush administration.

More overt lies from the left leaning Associated Press

2010-02-08T11:12:00.005-05:00

Powerline does a great job of outing the AP as it overtly lies about the content of the Tim Tebow and Mom Super Bowl Ad to whip up hysteria amongst the Pro-Choice group.

Journalistic integrity has been absent from the AP for years now. Apparently the "Associated" in Associated Press means - associated with Democratic talking points. How heinous.
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Government Motors' slippery slope

2010-02-04T08:26:00.004-05:00

When Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told people to "stop driving Toyotas" he took the first step down the very slippery slope many people worried about when Obama took over General Motors and Chrysler.

For certain the gas pedal, and now brake pedal flaws in Toyotas represent a potentially dangerous situation for owners of various brands of the cars. But LaHood, NPR and the Stonewall News Media are jumping on Toyota's neck with both jackboots.

Am I suggesting a concerted effort here by Obama supporters because they see a chance for the Government owned car companies to benefit from Toyota's misfortunes? Er, uh, no - of course not.

Maybe just a little case of schadenfreude, perhaps?

Oddly Ford, the US company that is not owned by US taxpayers has been going gangbusters and exceeding all expectations. They make very good cars and have gained a good deal of their support from buyers who like the idea that they aren't supported by American taxpayers hard earned dollars (well okay, Chinese dollars, in reality).

Japan is watching closely how Obama handles this and will have plenty to say after this incident is over. Expect the introduction of a new tariff on American imports to Japan if LaHood and the heavies continue their protectionist ways.

As for Ford, don't have any kind of safety slip-up or the Gummint will get ya.

Democratic Senators rub elbows with bad, bad big business.

2010-02-01T14:40:00.001-05:00

You can't make this stuff up.

From Democrat Robert Menendez chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committe:

In the upcoming elections, voters will face a choice between Republicans who are standing with Wall Street fat cats, bankers and insurance companies - or Democrats who are working hard to clean up the mess we inherited by putting the people's interests ahead of the special interests.”

So what do our gatekeeper Democrats do? They spend a lavish champaign-swilling fois gras-munching get together with the biggest lobbyists Washington has ever known.

All this nonsense happens right under our noses and we send the same crooks back to Washington each year. And we believe that a new "open, honest, transparent" government will be brought to Washington if we just elect Barack Obama.

It is worse now than it has ever been and the Cover For Obama Media is stonewalling all the information. Obamites are lapping up the daily pablum about this guy and he, Pelosi and Reid are marching over the little people with overt arrogance.

Another huge story that the Stonewall News Media will hide

2010-02-01T11:48:00.002-05:00

Speaker Pelosi has appropriated the use of military jets dozens of times for the use of her children and grandchildren at a cost of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars to the US taxpayer. The carbon footprint alone is shameful.

A Silent Victory for the US Military

2010-01-24T07:57:00.006-05:00

Over 4,000 US military men and women died fighting for freedom for Iraqis. They did not die in vain.

Saddam Hussein was responsible for nearly 40,000 deaths per year over a 25 year span. Some say he killed nearly a million of his own people (not to mention how many Iranians and Kuwaitis died in his territorial wars during that time).

The deaths in Iraq are now equivalent to the same numbers of murders in NY and Chicago each month. An incredible change and a savings of a tremendous number of lives. Not to mention that a free democracy now exists in the Middle East.

War for oil? Not a single US company has won the bids for oil contracts since they started 2 years ago.

Please read this post at Gateway Pundit. The Marines of Anbar Province are coming home from Iraq victorious and I'm betting the SNM - Stonewall News Media has no intention of covering it.

The pictures of the kids alone are well worth the look.
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Supreme Court needs a do over on Campaign Finance

2010-01-23T16:57:00.002-05:00

Horrific, horrific decision by the SCOTUS on restoring corporate finance of political ads. Slippery slope you say? Freedom of speech you say? BS. If it is truly about "free" speech then why is the result billions in spending?

If individuals can only give $500 towards a candidate then let Procter and Gamble, the IBEW or the Sierra Club spend the same on their advertising. $500. That's it. Spend it wisely.

We need to get on board with this now and legislate an override or detour of this decision. Otherwise, it becomes who can spend the most to destroy a candidate who doesn't toe the line.

Hell has frozen over

2010-01-19T22:14:00.002-05:00

Pigs are flying everywhere.

A Republican has won a Senate race in Massachusetts - and not just any seat but the seat of the most liberal Senator in the most liberal state. Impossible. Unbelievable. And amazingly heartening for the future of our republic.

Now Barack, Harry and Nancy the ball is in your court. You've abused your one party rule in the most overtly arrogant ways. Wake up now or feel a political tsunami this November like has never been seen before.

Justice is served. And this is just the beginning.

An enormity of meaning

2010-01-18T14:53:00.003-05:00

The shockwaves resulting from a Republican win in Massachusetts for a US Senate seat that was last held by Ted Kennedy are being greatly UNDERstated. Yup I said understated.

Living here in Massachusetts it is much easier to be cognizant of this.

I have lived here for 38 years. I am a registered Democrat primarily because I know that the only value a primary vote would have for me here is to help elect the lesser of any Democrats running for an elected seat. Can you imagine that? The Democrats are always guaranteed a win except for a few exceptions in the case of the governor.

We have 10 members of the US House of Representatives. They are all Democrats. We have 2 US Senators. They are both Democrats. The Attorney General is a Democrat. The Secretary of State is a Democrat. Get this - the state legislature - Senators and Representatives - of which there are over 200, are 94% Democrat.

And again, this was Ted Kennedy's seat. The avowed single most liberal member of the Senate!

There are 3 times the number of registered Democrats as Republicans. A 37 to 12 advantage.

The national margin for Obama over McCain was 7%. In Massachusetts 26%.

You think a win by Brown won't be an absolute shocker? 10 Democrat Congressmen and women will be running for election this year. They NEVER have legitimate competition from Republicans.

My guess is this year that is going to change. Big time.

Obama in full panic mode

2010-01-16T13:05:00.002-05:00

Why else would he, on the eve of his visit to stump for Coakley, decide it's time to give labor unions a break from the Cadillac tax on health plans? Because he knows that Massachusetts is all about labor and tossing this mega-bone just before the weekend will stop the bleeding of deteriorating support from unions.

I say the union top brass may have negotiated this but the rank and file will see through and still vote for Scott Brown.

This ploy of selective payouts to Big Pharma, various US Senators and now the unions is the kind of discrimination that will kill the already near death public support.

Who's running the White House, Machiavelli?

His bags probably fly free

2010-01-15T15:04:00.005-05:00

President Obama is rumored to be making a visit to Boston this Sunday in support of Democrat Senate candidate Martha Coakley. Though it will be a quick plane trip President Obama will be carrying a lot of baggage with him.

Bag number 1:
Obama recently visited Virginia gubernatorial candidate Democrat Creigh Deeds before his November election bid.
Creigh Deeds lost

Bag number 2:
He strongly supported and often visited Democrat Governor John Corzine of New Jersey.
John Corzine lost

Bag number 3:
The city of Chicago was in line for the 2016 Olympics - most thought they were a shoe-in; President Obama and First Lady Michelle visited Europe to seal the deal on the eve of voting.
Chicago lost - Big

Obama's favorability rating has dropped from 72% in February to 47% now. Are you sure you want Obama to show up, Martha?

And who will escort the President from the airport? The Massachusetts State Police have already endorsed Scott Brown and I doubt that the "stupid"(BO's words) Cambridge police are likely able to find their way to Logan.
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Democrats scrambling for a Sinking Ship Spin

2010-01-15T11:32:00.004-05:00

There has been a sea change in the way Democrat pundits and Stonewall News Media reporters and writers are spinning the Senate race in Massachusetts. The polls are shifting towards the Republican and no amount of blaming the pollsters is going to change the results.

The new spin is that Coakley is a weak candidate who ran a weak campaign. She deserves to lose. Uh -huh. How could she not beat a Republican. In Massachusetts. When the candidate is stupid.

(this last quip suggested by the brilliant Boston Globe columnist Brian McGrory with the over used "you won't find him up late at night at Mensa meetings" joke).

Note: Two columns into your "new" career at the Globe and the tired old saws are already back?

From Jonah Goldberg at NRO:

The Democrats’ “bad climate” is a direct result of how they’ve governed. The populist backlash is fueled by a sense that Democrats are acting on their preferred agenda and by their own rules. From the shenanigans of the people who write our tax code and collect our taxes to special deals and secret arrangements for big businesses and legislators who play ball, the Democrats have abandoned transparency in favor of transparent arrogance.

Dems don't want anyone (particularly Dems) to believe the good ship Demcrat Majority is going down from anything other than the dumb luck of presenting a feeble candidate.

Coronation Interruptus

2010-01-15T08:42:00.003-05:00

Cigars, a little cognac and some lovely mahogany private function rooms at Boston's best hotels. This is how the fat cat Massachusetts democrats have envisioned the evening of January 19th. The night of the coronation of Martha Coakley as US Senator from Massachusetts. Things would be over quickly, the early returns assuring a 30 point win for Martha and a humiliating defeat to yet another Quixotic Republican. Plenty of jokes about his stupid pick-up truck ads and insults about his daughter's failed attempt on American Idol. In the labor union halls the beer is swilled as the paid sign holders for Coakley revel in their defeat of yet another fiscal buzz killer. An argument or two might break out when someone suggests that they just voted to have their Cadillac health care plans taxed. Things quiet down when they nervously agree that "that'll never happen".

The bluest state in America. Ten Congressmen - Ten Democrats. Two Senators - Two Democrats. One Governor - One Democrat. A state legislature that is 94% Democrat. The only state to vote for McGovern. Nuclear free zone Cambridge, also referred to proudly as "the Peoples Republic of Cambridge". In Massachusetts you vote Democrat or you keep your mouth shut if you don't. When things get done in Massachusetts it is the will of Democrats only. No Republican input.

The result: near the top in all taxes, near the top in the misery index. Corruption that has several state reps, senators in jail or heading there. When an electorate passed a referendum to lower the income tax the Democrat government broke constitutional law and refused to lower the tax. Recently the sales tax was increased by 25% in a dead of the night vote. It's when the Democrats do their best work. Just ask Pelosi and Reid on the federal level.

But lately Coakley's challenger has shown some staying power and in 2 polls Scott Brown holds a lead. It is now perceived as a statistical dead heat. Could people in Massachusetts be waking up? Have they finally had enough?

It's a David vs. Goliath story with tens of millions of dollars from out-of-state Democrat organizations pouring in this week to flood the airways with negative ads. The Democrats are running scared and the Obama administration must be feeling just a little Marie Antoinette-like.

Revolution is coming and heads are going to roll.

Help Haiti

2010-01-13T19:56:00.001-05:00

The devastation is apocalyptic. Death toll rising, injured and hungry need our help.

Donation sites.

I think Martha's dog will be pacing the floor next Tuesday

2010-01-13T14:45:00.003-05:00

This remarkable video shows a dog bolting a building seconds before any indication of an earthquake. It is fascinating.

Stop by your favorite Coakley supporter's house next Tuesday and see what the dog is doing. You may not have to stay up for the final returns.

Coakley says the "terrorists aren't in Afghanistan"

2010-01-13T11:08:00.004-05:00

Now we know why she thinks there are no terrorists in Afghanistan - she's hired them all for her campaign! This photo shows one of her thugs after a reporter from the Weekly Standard claimed he was shoved to the ground because he was asking too many probing questions about her connection to Big Healthcare donors. Here's a video of the continued harassment the reporter got as he walked down a public street.

Open and honest government - coming right up!
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Re - pub - li - can. Ick.

2010-01-13T08:57:00.003-05:00

Today's radio ad for Martha Coakley is absolute hilarity. I thought it was a parody. It wasn't.

A male and female narrator trade lines for 30 seconds saying little more than "Re-pub-li-can....Scott Brown...Re-pub-li-can". The voices drip with vitriol and disgust as if to suggest Republican = the black plague. I can see the recording studio session as the ad agency hacks directed the talent..

"Come on...more hatred, more revulsion..think sewage, think Hannibal Lechter.."

This is supposed to bring out the base. I suppose it will, but I can't help but believe it will serve to galvanize the Republicans and the Independents who are clearly paying attention to this race.

Desperate lefties are a very funny lot. I'm having trouble wiping the smile off my face.

What can Brown do for you?

2010-01-13T08:32:00.004-05:00

The Massachusetts Senate race is down to the wire and to paraphrase Bill Parcells; it's likely that Democrats are "throwing up in their mouths" a bit. Out of nowhere, Scott Brown - Massachusetts state rep, is threatening to upset the apple cart and send liberals scrambling locally and nationally for a place to hide.

Last month the SEIU-supported radio ads for Coakley were so arrogant as to suggest "next Tuesday Massachusetts will elect its next US Senator" This was the primary. Democrats believed that the actual coronation was last month during the primary. After all they hold a 3 to 1 advantage in voter registration and live in the only state that voted for George McGovern.

The thought this fall that electing a Republican to fill the deceased "liberal lion of the Senate" Ted Kennedy's seat was as likely as global warming science being a hoax.

Oops and oops.

Brown is still trailing in close polls and may not win this seat, but the tremors that the closeness of this race are sending out are reverberating throughout this country and will have a clear and obvious impact on the 2010 election year for Democrats.

When you lose Jon Stewart......well

2009-12-02T16:59:00.004-05:00

The fake news of Comedy Central was on ACORN scandals 3 days late - which put them 10 days ahead of the StoneWall News Networks. Again Stewart was only 6 days late with the ClimateGate story - 2 weeks ahead of the SNN.

Uh Oh

Three weeks late the NYT "reports" on ClimateGate

2009-12-02T10:06:00.003-05:00

In pointing out that Climatologist Phil Jones, head of the CRU, East Anglia - an author of some of the most egregious ClimateGate emails has stepped down, the NYT decides it's time to pull back the curtain for a minor peak.

The e-mail exchanges among several prominent American and British climate-change scientists appear to reveal efforts to keep the work of skeptical scientists out of major journals and the possible hoarding and manipulation of data to overstate the case for human-caused climate change.

This represents the closest thing to a fair description of the scandal we've yet seen from the Stone Wall Media. Give teh internet tubers credit for forcing the issue.

Set these SEALs free, now

2009-11-30T22:08:00.006-05:00

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq,the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

This scum kills 4 guys and in the process of capturing him the SEALs give him a bloody lip. Sure, let's court martial these guys - we need to show our compassion. Maybe Obama can have the SEALs tried in New York - you know, to prove how barbaric our fighting forces are.

A telling visit to a college town

2009-11-30T16:57:00.004-05:00

I spent the Thanksgiving holiday with relatives who work and study at a large Midwestern Research University. I loved it, as I was able to spend time with my favorite people.

Friday morning I opened the daily newspaper and within the first section there were two large stories about Global Warming.

One was headlined "Obama's Climate Change Proposals Unlikely to Affect Daily Lives" . It was a story about how Obama's upcoming visit and promises to the Copenhagen Climate Council would hardly cause a blip in our daily activities but would surely advance the cause against global warming.

The second headline 3 pages later was " Attack against Global Warming will Save Lives ". I swallowed hard and read the story about how keeping the planet at its current temperature would save millions of lives. Both of these stories were in the front section, both mentioned not one word about ClimateGate which was then 9 days old.

Somehow this newspaper was able to include both stories without attribution to a news service. Is that legal? So I presume they came from AP or Reuters both known for shilling the AGW party line.

After reading this I wanted to talk to my relatives about the insanity of this but reserved judgement as I had already been warned(by the scientist relative no less!)that "Oh that email story has already been proven to be overblown." (this is the same relative who once gave me a copy of Rahm Emmanuel's book "The Plan" as a gift.)

I was in deep depression about the lack of journalism in this college town newspaper and the lack of open thought at the ivory tower that my relative worked in.

Brainwashing is not nearly a strong enough word.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time.

2009-11-30T16:38:00.003-05:00

But you can't fool all of the people all of the time...

Eduardo Zorita thinks the Climate Goons should go. And he should know, he supplied them with data.

Why I think that Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be
barred from the IPCC processEduardo Zorita, November 2009

Short answer: because the scientific assessments in which they may take part are not credible anymore. A longer answer: My voice is not very important. ......By writing these lines I will just probably achieve that a few of my future studies will, again, not see the light of publication. My area of research happens to be the climate of the past millennia, where I think I am appreciated by other climate-research 'soldiers'.

As you must know I've been railing about this for over a year. The hockey stick graph was the first obvious outting of the very, very bad science of AGW. I thought surely that would sink this hideous ship of fools and of course it was covered up by the MSM and only fired a shot across their bow. Now I wonder if this so very clearcut evidence of wholesale fraud can be enough to do the job. If it is, it will have absolutely nothing to do with "conventional journalism" which by ignoring this story for two weeks has pronounced itself dead.

So THAT'S why Sanjay Gupta refuses to become Surgeon General!

2009-11-22T07:51:00.003-05:00

Remember when Obama told us that his new Surgeon General would be Sanjay Gupta the TV doc? And then it was nevermind.

Here's why Sanjay turned down the gig.

SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: About 75 to 90 percent of breast cancers are found in women who have absolutely no family history and no identifiable risk factors. If you are a woman hearing that at age 40, right now watching, 75 to 90 percent of breast cancers found with people who have no risk factors, no family history, what should they do?

LUCY MARION, PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE: I would not recommend it. I would not make a recommendation. We’re saying that the benefits are small.

GUPTA: What do you mean by that? When you say the benefits are small? Let’s not beat around the bush here. What exactly are you trying to say?

MARION: We look at it in various ways. For example, we look at life years gained by the actual screening every year or every other year. And the life years gained for that group is not very large. There are some life years gained. But it’s not very large.

GUPTA: You’re a nurse and…

MARION: And I know…

GUPTA: I don’t want to, you know…

MARION: I am.

GUPTA: … dig ourselves into a whole [sic] here. You’re a nurse, you’re in a profession of healing and compassion.

Are you comfortable with what you’re saying right now? Because what you’re saying, what I’m hearing you say is that you’re saying some lives just aren’t worth it. We — that’s why we’re changing these screening recommendations. And that is an incredibly frightening thing to hear from someone like yourself.

Is that what you’re saying?

MARION: No, I’m not saying that some lives are worth it. I do not say that. But as you know, as a physician, there are many screening tests that could save lives but could create many other issues that we made decisions about.

GUPTA: So, really, the harm that you’re saying to women, the harm that you cite is that it could cause unnecessary anxiety and worry in women who get these mammograms, for example, if they have a false positive? Do you think that it would cause anxiety in women if they are told that look, 90 percent — up to 90 percent of women who develop breast cancer never had a risk factor and now you’re not sure if you have that breast cancer because you didn’t get the test? Don’t you think that causes anxiety as well?

MARION: Yes, we know that the biggest risk factor is age. And that’s clear. And so the other — and we know other risk factors and we know that many do not have known risk factors if you don’t include age.

The Obama plan to cheap out on womens' healthcare wasn't going to work for Gupta.

President Obama wins Nobel Prize for Peace

2009-10-09T08:56:00.010-04:00

I give up. The shallow "cult of personality" trumps substance again.

Mother Theresa and Martin Luther King must be rolling over in their graves.

This does answer the burning question....." Why did Obama keep telling McChrystal to delay his report about the need for more troops in Afghanistan?"

He didn't want the report to come out because he knew about this coming up. I don't even want to think about the way this delay may have impacted the battlefield.

It's all about the ego.

UPDATE:

Hey guess what? 5 Days after winning the Nobel Prize for Peace Obama is sending an "unannounced" 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Remember O said.." I had no idea I was even nominated!"

You can't make this stuff up.

What do you think the chances are that they'll pick up the phone if you have chest pain?

2009-10-07T10:44:00.003-04:00

The IRS didn't answer some 22.4 million calls from taxpayers last year. And President Obama wants us to believe that government run health care is something that will "improve the health of all Americans".

Does President Obama think the entire American electorate is stupid? Yes, he absolutely does. In truth, he's basing most of his policy on just that premise.

The Appeasement President Kicks Tibet to the Curb

2009-10-05T20:25:00.004-04:00

Obama has appeased Russia (Georgia), Iran (nukes), Palestine (Jewish settlements) and North Korea (what missiles?) while apologizing to anyone and everyone for everything that American presidents did before he arrived. The "reset" button has been set as the Obama administration loves to say. Everything will be all better now....pat pat.

And here's your reset Dalai Llama. Remember how for the past 18 years you could be sure of getting a meeting with the President of the USA when you came to America each year to plead for proper treatment of Tibetans who were bounced from their country by the Chinese 56 years ago? It was largely symbolic but it meant that the US had your back. Buzzzzzz, RESET.

No meeting with Obama until AFTER he meets with CHINA first! Guess what that message will be.....

Mainland China, our benefactor for the Stimulus Package, TARP money and the future trillions in Cap and Trade and ObamaCare are holding the car keys and saying.."you're staying in tonight kid".

Our President is saluting and saying " Yes, sir - whatever you say, sir."

And a chill wind blows on the island of Taiwan tonight.

"All the news that's fit to print."

2009-09-27T08:05:00.002-04:00

Michelle Malkin, one of the blogospheres most brilliant and tireless minds recounts how the NYT own ombudsman describes their ineptitude and political partisanship regarding overlooking the stories about Van Jones and the ACORN video series. It is the absolute essence of what we've been saying around here about jourtegrity lost.

You have to read the ombudsman's comments. He should definitely stay away from the cafeteria food for awhile

Here's the hidden video we all want to see: first day on the job for a new journalist at the NYT when they have it explained to them what journalism "our way" is all about.

Note: I've been on charette with the documentary film that we're trying to complete the last couple of weeks. JL will be back full force soon.

When a People fear their Government that is Tyranny. When a Government fears its People that is Liberty

2009-09-12T15:25:00.004-04:00

Jefferson said that 230 years ago and it remains valid. The government is getting too big, too fast and America's regular folks are paying attention.

Get your yucks over the rest of the weekend watching the usual suspects (CNN, ABC,CBS,MSNBC, and the elitist newspapers) try to minimize and demonize the efforts. Smile when you watch it instead of getting mad, it's much easier to take. After all, it means they're frightened.

I don't think this is the revolution Bill Ayers had in mind at all.

'Nuff said

2009-09-12T11:37:00.004-04:00

Add to that some awful stories coming out of the NHS in Britain about termination of life in it's later stages by healthcare workers and the incredible deficits from Canada, Britain and France for their public plans and you can see why Germany is reprivatizing their healthcare.

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If you don't think journalism is dead in the Main Stream Media

2009-08-28T08:51:00.002-04:00

....think of the last article you read in the: New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, or the last news story you saw on the ABC Evening News, NBC Evening News, CBS Evening News or anything touted as news on MSNBC and the other usual suspects; including Fox News. Then read this.

Still think there's actual journalism happening out there? I would argue that the closest thing to balanced, unbiased journalism happens in the Wall Street Journal and few other print rags. J-school frankly gets a very big part of the responsibility for this. From personal experience I can tell you J-school is severely biased toward the Democratic Talking Points angle.

Get your news from the WSJ, and weight your internet noodling with balanced sites - NOT just the sites that feed you the red meat you crave.

Bush Volunteered to go to Vietnam - and CBS knew it

2009-08-28T08:20:00.006-04:00

Rathergate. The most visible of the Main Stream Media's attacks on President Bush during the presidential campaign of 2004 never got the full airing of its deceitfulness in the MSM - of course.

The Democrat boy's club also known as the Main Stream Media buried the story, and in fact tried to make Dan Rather some kind of victim. The victim, of course, was George W Bush whose military career was besmirched by the falsification of documents by Mary Mapes and the overlooking of this fact by Dan Rather. Bush was painted as a coward who pulled strings to avoid going to Vietnam. Journalistic malfeasance of the highest order. It nearly won the presidency for (gulp) John Kerry.

Even worse it has come to light, and has been recently reported by Bernard Goldberg, that Mapes new that Bush actually volunteered to go to Vietnam.

"Mapes had information prior to the airing of the September 8 [2004] Segment that President Bush, while in the TexANG [Texas Air National Guard] did volunteer for service in Vietnam but was turned down in favor of more experienced pilots. For example, a flight instructor who served in the TexANG with Lieutenant Bush advised Mapes in 1999 that Lieutenant Bush “did want to go to Vietnam but others went first.” Similarly, several others advisedMapes in 1999, and again in 2004 before September 8, that Lieutenant Bush hadvolunteered to go to Vietnam but did not have enough flight hours toqualify."

Thanks MSM for further proving that journalism is dead in your realm.

MSNBC Edits Video to Incite Race Wars

2009-08-20T10:12:00.005-04:00

Home of such fabulous jour-no-lists as: Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews and so on has graced their narrowing viewing public with more journo-lies. This one includes editing video to suggest a machine gun toting protestor at an Obama rally was a good example of the racism showing up in the anti-healthcare crowd.

They edited the video only to show the lower half of his body. Each time the camera tilted up they cut out of the shot. The problem of course is that the man's skin color didn't fit the narrative.

He was black.

Remarkably, (not so remarkably really, MSNBC has to be run by complete idiots) they used this clip to launch into a discussion about white racism against the black president.

I no longer blame MSNBC for their indiscretions I can only blame whatever few people watch this dreadful waste of good oxygen and bandwidth.

If you watch MSNBC and can't see what dreck is being spoonfed to you, you are a melonhead. A complete melonhead.