Archive for March, 2011

Herman Cain

After two months of the new 112^th Congress, they and the president have managed to keep the government going for another two weeks. Wow! There’s only six-and-a-half more months to go in this fiscal year. They are really on the ball!

The workers who landed one of those 192,000 jobs created last month to bring the unemployment rate down to 8.9 percent have got to be celebrating. I am happy for them and hope they are not so deep in debt that they can still avoid personal bankruptcy. We now only have to create another 14,808,000 jobs for the unlucky ones who could not find a job because the economy is still stalled.

He'll pick up the tab.

Or how about those two war ships the president dispatched to the Middle East? That ought to scare those dictators into doing the right thing. And maybe the war ships will convince Gadhafi that the United States will get the United Nations to do something other than issue another toothless verbal condemnation. Maybe Gadhafi will stop killing his own people in defiance of those wanting him gone.

The turmoil in the Middle East has already caused gasoline prices to rise, and they will continue to rise. We can’t blame the Obama administration for that because Former President George W. Bush should have developed an energy-independence strategy.

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This has been obvious for some time by anyone who really looked at the numbers, and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tries her best to evade the question. But Rep. Shimkus is relentless and finally gets her to admit it:

This is one of these matters that only Fox News and the expressly conservative media seem to care about, which I guess means the dinosaur media see it strictly as a partisan question. Seems to me that claiming $500 billion in savings that actually don’t exist ought to be a pretty big story, especially when you’re forced to admit it when put on the spot.

But it doesn’t fit with the storyline of a “historic legislative achievement” that “guarantees health care for all Americans.”

That’s a hell of a story all right! Too bad a story is all it is.

Brett Noel

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Dan Calabrese

Pope Benedict XVI made news this week by stating the obvious. By putting his official endorsement on the notion that the Jewish people as a whole were “not responsible” for the death of Jesus Christ, he apparently laid the smack to an excuse for Christians all over the world to stir up anti-Semitism.

Have you seen any Christians running around lately, excoriating the Jews for crucifying Christ?

It had to happen.

Me neither. But the legacy media reports on this as if it were a serious controversy. We’ve heard this idiocy before. They drummed it up in 2004 when Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ came out, because the movie accurately depicted the story of the Gospel, in which Jesus, who was Jewish, is crucified by the Romans with the approval of the religious authorities of the day, who were also Jewish.

The film was shocking and violent – because the events it brought to life from Scripture were shocking and violent – but the constant suggestions that it gave rise to anti-Semitism could have only come from a media that is completely ignorant about the basic tenets of the Christian faith.

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Dan Calabrese

In this case, I’m not sure liberal bias is really at work. I think the Associated Press is being lazy and stupid as much as anything else. But in its report on the Supreme Court decision that upheld the right of the so-called Westboro Baptist Church to be the biggest jerks on the planet, the AP really outdid itself by so casually referring these douchebags as a “fundamentalist church”:

AP Fundamentalist Church. See? We can do it too.

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a grieving father’s pain over mocking protests at his Marine son’s funeral must yield to First Amendment protections for free speech. All but one justice sided with a fundamentalist church that has stirred outrage with raucous demonstrations contending God is punishing the military for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.

I realize much of the legacy media thinks “fundamentalist” is merely a euphemism for extremism among people who mention God. To them, if you’re mean, judgmental and prone to making people angry, you’re a fundamentalist.

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Bob Maistros

The Brits have a great word for it.

Gobsmacked.

Derived from the action of slapping one’s hand to one’s mouth in utter shock, surprise and frequently, dismay.

Gobsmacked.

Indeed.

It was my only possible response at hearing that the Obama Administration had decided, all on its lonesome, to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act as cases challenging its constitutionality wind their way – in parallel to challenges to California’s Marriage Amendment – to the nation’s highest court.

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Dan Calabrese

In this corner, George Soros – green-eyed, fang-toothed promoter of socialism, Sharia law, the New World Order and guacamole. (Yeah, it’s worse than you thought.)

In this corner, Charles Koch – green-eyed, fang-toothed promoter of fascism, aristocratic oppression, the military-industrial complex, globalism and the music of Michael Bolton.

What lurks in the shadows?

Apparently, depending who you ask, either Soros or Koch is the world’s greatest threat to, well, the world. Every left-wing politician is under the evil control of Soros. Every right-wing tea partier is in the back pocket of Koch.

This makes me miss The X-Files. Remember the Cigarette Smoking Man, who used to sit in the shadows puffing away while Mulder and Scully tried to uncover the conspiracy to sell out humankind to the alien colonizers? That’s what Soros and Koch must be like.

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Brett Noel

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