This is really creepy - Hitlerjugend coming to your school

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President Obama’s Address to Students Across America September 8, 2009 -

Schools that wouldn't even post a picture of the previous President are slobbering all over themselves with this one.

All I can say is, they better have an opt-out option. ◼ Read it. It's pretty creepy.

"Why is it important that we listen to the President, and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important? Heh, how about IS what they say important?

As the President speaks teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases... students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster-web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes... they could think about the following: What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do?

Imagine if Bush had done this! No, This is the precursor to Obama's mandatory volunteerism (Universal Voluntary Public Service). He spelled it out during the campaign, so many hours for little kids, more for high school... then it will be you can't get student loans unless you have complied, can't get into college unless you have complied...

This is wrong. And if there is one thing that is going to turn people off - it is this excessive, unending preaching by Obama and his ilk. Get off it.

Call your school today, find out if they are planning to "participate" - find out if they have an opt-out plan. And let them know that if they don't have an opt-out plan they will have no ADA (average daily attendance) money for that day.

◼ Obama to address public school students September 8
◼ Open Letter to Loudoun Schools re: Obama's September 8 address to students
◼ Obama’s Sept. 8 speech to schoolchildren Michelle Malkin
◼ Obama’s next effort: a Children’s Crusade? HotAir
◼ Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals ibdeditorials
◼ Obama Wants You ibdeditorials
Obama says that as president he will "set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year." What he doesn't say is that he'll make such voluntarism compulsory by attaching strings to federal education dollars. The schools will make the kids volunteer. It's called plausible deniability.
◼ The plausibly deniable draft - Obama's very modern take on national service examiner
◼ National Service? Puh-lease TIME Michael Kinsley
◼ Web faux pas: Plan leaked for 'civilian security force'? - Before blogs caught it, Obama site told of requiring students to serve wnd
◼ Dear Leader to Address Youth On Community Life & Sharing gatewaypundit
◼ The Children's Story
◼ Beloved Leader Obama to Address School Kids on September 8 sodahead
◼ “I pledge to be of service to Barack Obama” "and to only flush after a deuce." SHOWN IN SCHOOL.
◼ The Following is a Paid Political Announcement: The NEA Big Hollywood h/t: backyardconservative
...It sounded, how should I phrase it…unusual, that the NEA would invite the art community to a meeting to discuss issues currently under vehement national debate. I decided to call in, and what I heard concerned me. ...
◼ The Following is a Paid Political Announcement: The NEA Chicago Daily Observer h/t: backyardconservative
◼ America, Join the Obama Coup or Get Out of the Way Big Hollywood h/t: backyardconservative
◼ Obama's Back-to-School Programming The Minority Report

So Cal Fires, Satellite View

thx, R2

The NEW ABSTINENCE

◼ Chest bumps. High fives. Hugs and handshakes.

The trend toward dehumanization continues. The flu scare. Justification.
h/t: avid

The Food Police

◼ Dumb Law Makes Coffee Illegal in NYC

Remember when anti-smoking laws were first getting started? It started with NO-SMOKING sections. And people who warned of the slippery slope were called alarmists as politicians and friends alike said, "NO. That will never happen."

Kinda like the Health Care debate now - those who are wondering about the slippery slope are being called liars who spread "disinformation." "No, that is not in the bill."

Well neither was this. And the 'alarmists' who predicted that hamburgers from Burger King would be next have been proven right - as the Nanny State grew, and the food police proliferated. All the things they said would never happen are now codified into law, including no smoking in your car, in your house. Pepsi machines are banned in schools and ever tightening regulations are ever more intrusive into your personal life.

It wasn't in the bill. It wasn't in the plan.

"It isn't in the bill"

"We'll work out the details later," said Obama.

And you expect people to be blind. Trust the govt. That'll never happen...

Dynasties, nightmares and fairy tales

◼ The end to two grim fairy tales Breitbart

Clinton: Not passing bill 'worst thing we can do for Democrats'...

And that's the key statement. It's not about the people. It is about the Party. ZeroCare/KennedyCare is about the Democratic TEAM beating the Republican Team, not about the people at all. Poor Obama is reduced to bringing out the old guys to try'n beat people into submission. Has Pope/Rabbi/High Priest Gore trying to shame people about their morals - and they're reduced to stumping for "The One."

◼ Clinton, Gore speak on health care, energy to Tennessee Democrats

Clinton, at least can be said to have tried something before - unlike all the worthless Congressbeasts who suddenly would have you think this is SO vital that they never tried to do anything about it in all their long and glorious tenure.

“I’m not a very good politician any more; I just say what I think,” Clinton said. “But I have been waiting for this for 40 years ... to recreate the American dream.”


Nice code words.

Kind of makes you wonder what the Smart Growth progressives have against people living the American Dream

◼ If you like living in the suburbs, having your own little piece of God's green Earth, and being part of the community schools, churches and civic groups, well, too bad because the "Smart Growth" progressives in Congress and the National Reseach Council have a new report that shows how much better things would be if instead you and your family lived in an urban high rise.... Washington Examiner

Stay tuned, sports fans. This is about to get interesting.

◼ A Hurricane in Los Angeles?

Another perspective, or two

◼ Obama Incites Rosh Hashanah riots in Shuls Pond erings

◼ 'We are God's partners in matters of life and death' politico

Religion is a means to an end, a tool for this President. the Church he attended was the one that would get him ahead, the one he needed in order to pretend to be religious in order to get elected. Since taking office, no church. Shines on the National day of Prayer. Now, he must think everyone views religion as he does, a meaningless means to an end. Asking clergy of any religion to help him his "health care plan" is the ultimate in disrespect - especially since no one knows WHAT IT REALLY IS - no details have been worked out, there are five plans floating around, it is Congress's business at this point, not his, and there are very very serious concerns and issues to be addressed before he forces a ramrodding of what is really nothing more than his will, his win.

Three Degrees of Sirhan Sirhan

◼ Barack Obama's close family friend Bill Ayers dedicated his 1960's communist manifesto Prairie Fire to Robert F. Kennedy's killer Sirhan Sirhan...

Read it - interesting point.
h/t: R2

Obama Administration Announces Not Enforcing Union Reporting Laws

◼ (The Obama Adminstration) has just announced that it is suspending the stringent reporting requirements that labor unions must by law satisfy to assure that their financial dealings are legal and above-board canadafreepress

NOTE:… Accordingly, OLMS will refrain from initiating enforcement actions against union officers and union employees based solely on the failure to file the report required by section 202 of the Labor-Management and Reporting Disclosure Act (LMRDA), 29 U.S.C. § 432, using the 2007 form, as long as individuals meet their statutorily-required filing obligation in some manner. OLMS will accept either the old Form LM-30 or the new one for purposes of this non-enforcement policy.

◼ U.S. Department of Labor:

For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can't let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid.

◼ Enough is enough, Harry - Stop the childish bullying Review journal
...as Bob shook hands with our senior U.S. senator in what should have been nothing but a gracious business setting, Reid said: "I hope you go out of business."

Later, in his public speech, Reid said he wanted to let everyone know that he wants the Review-Journal to continue selling advertising because the Las Vegas Sun is delivered inside the Review-Journal.

Such behavior cannot go unchallenged.

You could call Reid's remark ugly and be right. It certainly was boorish. Asinine? That goes without saying.

But to fully capture the magnitude of Reid's remark (and to stop him from doing the same thing to others) it must be called what it was -- a full-on threat perpetrated by a bully who has forgotten that he was elected to office to protect Nevadans, not sound like he's shaking them down.

No citizen should expect this kind of behavior from a U.S. senator. It is certainly not becoming of a man who is the majority leader in the U.S. Senate. And it absolutely is not what anyone would expect from a man who now asks Nevadans to send him back to the Senate for a fifth term....

Never piss off people who buy ink by the barrel.

It is amazing the behavior we are seeing by elected officials who played nice-y nice to get elected, but aren't even being polite anymore, now that they see themselves as the arbiters. No longer servants of the people, they seek to become dictators. redi should go down in history as one of the worst politicians in American History.

◼ Editorial: What Happens in VegasDoes NOT Stay in Vegas
Sometimes, it seems, the American people just get in the way. Which is why the members of Congress have recently turned to labeling their constituents “un-American,” “brownshirts,” and (Mr. Reid’s word) “evil mongers.”

Nevadans and the rest of the American people ought to echo the words of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and let those in Washington know that henceforth this kind of “creepy tactic will not be tolerated.”

Otherwise, the odds are about 100 to 1 that Washington’s “public servants” will increasingly ignore and abhor the public they have come to disdain.

Gotta have

A shower which uses a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification. The living plants recycle and reuse wastewater, producing drinkable water
◼ telegraph.co.uk

"Moses had a temper...Kennedy had Chappaquiddick"

That's a quote from Joan Vennochi in The Boston Globe
◼ Things only a Kennedy could get away with Mark Steyn

So, we have the Huffington Post saying Mary Jo might think her death was worth it, and now Kennedy is equated with Moses, and his "tremendous moral collapse" is sanitized as an "ugly automobile accident."

The problem is "ugly" is what happened AFTER the accident. And no one should EVER forget it.

Banned. No dissent allowed.

ABC and NBC refuse to air this ad.

Which of the 5 proposals floating out there do they support? Do they even know? Do they agree with the provisions that allow all of your personal financial information to be given to some new Czar? Have they considered that your current insurers never needed or asked for that in order to determine whether you would get coverage?

C'mon, this is disgraceful.

Ain't No More

◼ Will Obama declare this cop “acted stupidly”?

Links of the day

◼ Why Sarah Palin should not leave the room HotAir DoctorZero
◼ Let's Be Honest About Death Counseling Krauthammer

◼ Obama's Brick Wall: The American People David Limbaugh
◼ Obama and Plantation Politics Right Side News

◼ NY Post: “Peeved Obama Trumps Paterson’s Race Card” Patterico

◼ Union Whose President Is Paid $626,769 Protests Supermarket CEO Who Earns $33,831 Mitchell Blatt
◼ 'Obamacare' Supporters Plan Overhaul Push to Counter Opposition FOX
◼ ACORN Watch: What happens in Vegas… Michelle Malkin

'have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?'

One of Kennedy’s close friends, former editor of Newsweek and New York Times Magazine Ed Klein praising Ted Kennedy: "And he would ask people, 'have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?' That is just the most amazing thing."
◼ link Althouse



◼ “One of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself”

Yeah. That's just amazing, Ed.

◼ Liberal at Huffpo thinks Mary Jo Kopechne didn't mind dying for Ted American Thinker
◼ The Footnote Speaks: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted's Career? Huffington Post
Who knows -- maybe she'd feel it was worth it. Yeah, Babe, who knows, maybe she would have been President herself. We'll never know will we.

Fooking amazing. Yep.

Trounced

◼ Big Beck: Goes over 3 million viewers, beats O’Reilly in demo: Cable News Ratings for Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

◼ In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill." h/t: Wild

◼ S.773 - Cybersecurity Act of 2009
◼ govtrack.us/congress/

Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income -- including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale

◼ OOPS! CHARLIE FORGOT THIS $1M HOUSE - REALTY BITES TAX-THEM-NOT-ME RANGEL NYPost

In the worst financial crisis since the depression

yet - Congress keeps spending lavishly on themselves, while asking you to tighten your belt.

The latest - US House of Representatives have now made it possible for Congressional aides to receive nice bonuses - House employees making over $168,000 a year can get government funded subsidies to pay for their outstanding student loans. Cost to the taxpayers - you - $12.6 million.

◼ Congress discovers the virtue of retention bonuses
The deficit for the next ten years will go at least as high a $9 trillion. This will be the fourth budget from the Democrats, and it will be even more unbalanced than the three that preceded it.

Got a student loan you are trying to pay off? Who's going to help you? And how?

IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, filing status, modified adjusted gross income, number of dependents, and "other information

That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for "affordability credits."

◼ Democratic Health Care Bill Divulges IRS Tax Data cbsnews

Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and "other information as is prescribed by" regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for "affordability credits."

Section 245(b)(2)(A) says the IRS must divulge tax return details -- there's no specified limit on what's available or unavailable -- to the Health Choices Commissioner. The purpose, again, is to verify "affordability credits."

Section 1801(a) says that the Social Security Administration can obtain tax return data on anyone who may be eligible for a "low-income prescription drug subsidy" but has not applied for it.

Over at the Institute for Policy Innovation (a free-market think tank and presumably no fan of Obamacare), Tom Giovanetti argues that: "How many thousands of federal employees will have access to your records? The privacy of your health records will be only as good as the most nosy, most dishonest and most malcontented federal employee.... So say good-bye to privacy from the federal government. It was fun while it lasted for 233 years."

...If we're going to have such significant additional government intrusion into our health care system, we will have to draw the privacy line somewhere. Maybe the House Democrats' current bill gets it right. Maybe it doesn't. But this vignette should be reason to be skeptical of claims that a massive and complex bill must be enacted as rapidly as its backers would have you believe.

What Mary Mapes knew and when she knew it

◼ Mary Mapes knew Bush volunteered for Vietnam: CBS report HotAir

An important part of the story to be sure.

YEAH

Touchtable

h/t: ◼ “I Gotta Get Me One Of These” Of The Day black-and-right.com

the dismal science of spending other people's money as fast as possible, honed with ward bosses and union kingpins on Chicago's South Side, has failed

◼ It's official: Obamanomics has failed

A toast to Mary Jo

Report: Senator Ted Kennedy Dies of Brain Cancer
The Eulogies will begin. Saint Ted.
Sorry. No sympathy here.

She was alive. He didn't go for help. She died gasping for air in a submerged car.
He cared more about his image, and his career. What did a mere girl matter.
He should be buried in a submerged car.


CENSORED IN ADVANCE ◼ BANNED IN BEANTOWN Stations Respond To Death By Yanking Conservative Talk
Boston's two largest talk radio stations have responded to Ted Kennedy's passing by dumping their usual conservative programming and replacing it with local liberal supporters of the late senator.

We do hereby declare and proclaim August 26, 2009, to be ◼ MARY JO KOPECHNE MEMORIAL DAY The Other MCain

◼ Ted Kennedy making excuses for driving drunk and causing Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in his overturned car.

◼ Why is Ted Kennedy a murderer? Read this account of what happened at Chappaquiddick for the details you never knew HillBuzz
◼ Mary Jo Kopechne and Chappaquiddick: America's Selective Memory Politics Daily
◼ Ted Kennedy: The Senator of Sleaze who was a drunk sexual bully... and left a young woman to die dailymail.co.uk

What does this mean?

“I know there are going to be some who say this report proves we can’t afford health reform,” Orszag said. “I think that has it backwards,” because savings must be squeezed from the system.

What system is he talking about? See people will buy that on the surface.... but it doesn't add up. Where're they talking about squeezing money from the system? They're talking about adding a HUGE new program ONTO the system. But the doublespeak hides that.

◼ Obama Increases 2010 Deficit Forecast 19% to $1.50 Trillion
U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will widen to $1.5 trillion next year, reflecting a “deeper recession” than previously expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said....

The budget shortfall for 2010 will mark the second straight year of trillion-dollar deficits. The projected deficit for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 is higher than the $1.26 trillion forecast in May and reflects expectations economic growth will be slower this year and next because of “the severity of the crisis in the U.S. and in our trading partners,” said Christina Romer, White House chief economist, who along with Orszag briefed reporters on the report.

Sunshine and Shadow: Two Views of the Marijuana Culture and the Children Raised in it?

◼ Sunshine and Shadow: Two Views of the Marijuana Culture and the Children Raised in it? RedHeadedBlackbelt - one of Humboldt County's best blogs, always interesting, tackles a tough topic.
◼ humboldtkids.wordpress.com Poignant.
◼ Humboldt Kids
◼ humboldtgrow.wordpress.com

The wages of sin

The result of the America is Weak and Apologetic Tour - no one is worried about what Obama thinks, and so the murderer goes free...
◼ Gordon Brown in new storm over freed Lockerbie bomber
◼ Gaddafi embraces Lockerbie bomber and thanks his 'courageous friend' Gordon Brown for releasing him

Harry Reid is toast - and THAT is justice:
◼ Poll: Either GOP challenger could topple Harry Reid
◼ Reid Trails GOP Challenger By Double Digits in New Poll

The Oncoming Freight Train

◼ Second Wave Of The Credit Crisis: Collapsing Commercial Real Estate
The recent uptick in home sales, green shoots of new housing starts and rebounding stock market may suggest that the long-awaited turn in the U.S. economy is here.
But is this daylight at the end of the tunnel or the beam of an oncoming locomotive of commercial real estate insolvency coming down the tracks on a collision course with a shaky economy?...

-14

◼ rasmussenreports.com

◼ “Strongly Oppose” outnumbers “Strongly Supports” by 41-27% – incredible. This is rapidly turning into the liberal left verses everyone else – which is a recipe for disaster for the Democrats. The Strata Sphere
The Democrats were given a chance to REPRESENT Americans’ interests and desires with majorities in Congress and an inexperienced President. They were not given carte blanche to remake our country into some warped, left wing image of perfection (which has been shown over many decades to be disastrous).
***

"First of all, for all of you who see a public option as “free health care,” get that phrase out of your mind."

◼ Health Care: Sorry, some Roads Lead to Disaster Hip Hop Republican
h/t: kirly

Regarding the Megrahi agreement

◼ ...the Scottish government last night responded defiantly, insisting the US had made clear in discussions that, while it opposed Megrahi's release, it regarded freeing him on compassionate grounds because of his terminal cancer as "far preferable" to a prisoner transfer deal that would have seen him in custody....

The things that slip below the radar while we are focused on big issues like Zerocare. Obam's warm greetings to the Libyan leader, back when these negotiations were apparently going on - despite his eloquent condemnation a few days ago, the question becomes HOW MUCH DID THE PRESIDENT KNOW, AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

◼ Gaddafi embraces Lockerbie bomber and thanks his 'courageous friend' Gordon Brown for releasing him
***

◼ Lax on Libya
...during the period when the Scottish government was seeking input from the U.S. and Pan 103 victims' families, President Obama was meeting with Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi at the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy....

MoveOn.Org, SEIU, ACORN Planned To Infiltrate/Disrupt Recess Protests

◼ MoveOn.Org, SEIU, ACORN To Infiltrate/Disrupt Recess Protests How'd that go over?

From the comments: I got an email from HCAN for one of Obama's townhalls that wasn't to be announced until later. You have to RSVP and he wants supporters to RSVP before the public gets an announcement so it will be filled with his supporters. They also take suggestions from HCAN members for what questions to ask him....

"Do you really want your shopping dollars going to executives who are undermining President Obama?"

This melding of the once respectable Unions with the Soros/activist orgs is really troubling. Obam using them as stormtroopers (yellowshirts this time) even more so.

How in the world is John Mackey bringing up valid suggestions for IMPROVING the Health Care Debate UNDERMINING Obama? It's a very telling statement. Asking questions is equated with threatening. Something is VERY VERY WRONG HERE.

◼ Scenes From the Shut-up-and-Sing-Sell-Arugula Protest

And what's with this whole uniform thing, redshirts for ACORN, yellowshirts for UFCW?

I've believed Unions were a good thing, up until now. Now I think they should be abolished.

Blood for oil?

◼ Col Gaddafi's son told Libyan TV that Megrahi's release was linked to trade deals with Britain.

Speaking on Libyan television, Seif al Islam claimed Britain's former prime minister, Tony Blair, raised Megrahi's case each time he visited Libya.

"In all commercial contracts, for oil and gas with Britain, (Megrahi) was always on the negotiating table," Islam told channel Al Mutawassit.

So, lemme get this straight - Geert Wilders and Michael Savage are banned in Britain, but a mass murderer gets to go free, and for what?

"Our budget projections are now in line with the spring and summer projections that the Congressional Budget Office put out."

In other words, CBO was right. That's quite an admission.

◼ Obama to raise 10-year deficit to $9 trillion
◼ Obama leaves Washington for 10-day vacation

Nine TRILLION. Every Trillion is One Thousand Billion.

And now, on top of that:
◼ Obama Increases 2010 Deficit Forecast 19% to $1.50 Trillion
U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will widen to $1.5 trillion next year, reflecting a “deeper recession” than previously expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said.

OH MY GOD! FIBBS tries to EXPLAIN what "WEE-WEED UP" means

◼ "It's a phrase I use,'' White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today, hesitating at his press briefing to offer a physical demonstration of the phraseology.

"Let's do this in a way that's family friendly,'' Gibbs said. "I think 'wee-weed up' is when people get all nervous for no particular reason....
◼ "Everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up." Althouse

He IS better than Baghdad Bob.

Forget the Czar...

I think we need one of these...

Office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner (sign on office door in Victoria)

Coming attractions

Another LIE spread by MSNBC, DELIBERATE race baiting

Stop The ACLU has more: MSNBC Lie to Perpetuate Racial Tensions

Dem situation has 'slipped completely out of control'

◼ Charlie Cook, one of the best political handicappers in the business, sent out a special update to Cook Political Report subscribers Thursday that should send shivers down Democratic spines.

Reviewing recent polling and the 2010 election landscape, Cook can envision a scenario in which Democratic House losses could exceed 20 seats.

"There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all wee weed up!"

◼ Obama, to his Organizing for America network of supporters

No.

There's something about trying to shove a not-yet written, unread, large-scale, very expensive socialist program down America's throat.

There's something about attacking your own citizens, and sending your stormtroopers out to discredit and impersonate them.

There's something about setting up the White House as an org. Something about using the whitehouse'gov to ask people to tell on their neighbors.

That's what's got people all "wee weed up."

Not to mention having a President who uses terms like that.

◼ "Everybody in Washington gets all wee-weed up." Althouse

Get it right

"He's such a - a charming liar, though. He's such a nice guy when he lies like that."

◼ Gee, shocking. Looks like the folks over at Air America have discovered that Barack Obama has a trouble with truth when it comes to drug companies. Enjoy. Air America via No Quarter

Drop in world temperatures fuels global warming debate

◼ ...Government scientists strongly disagree. "Claims that global warming is not occurring . . . ignore this natural variability and are misleading," said NOAA's Easterling.

In reality, global warming "never ceased," said Karl, the climate data center director. Hahahahaha

The Strange Case of the Obama Meltdown

◼ ...because Obama assumed messianic pretensions, such a prophet suffers the wage of hypocrisy, given the growing reality that he is, on the presidential scale, rather mean spirited, highly partisan, too sensitive to criticism, and surprisingly ill-informed given the emphasis on his Ivy-League education and the whiz-kids around him (who wrote the error-plagued Cairo speech). Pajamas Media - Victor Davis Hanson

ANOTHER PHONY OBAMACARE DOCTOR

◼ ANOTHER PHONY OBAMACARE DOCTOR-- Is Really a Far Left Nut ...Update: She's a Realtor- Never Practiced Medicine ...Update: Realtor's License Expired gateway Pundit
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Kudos to our Granny and other Gateway Pundit readers for finding all the info.

The Tolerant Left

All this because the guy dared to say, "Hey what about medical savings plans, and hey, deal with tort reform!"

Unreal.

Why not show the whole clip Rose?

Check out Zombie's Bush as Hitler, Swastika-Mania: A Retrospective "...At recent rallies, town hall meetings and “tea parties,” a few protesters have shown up with signs comparing Obama to Hitler (i.e. depicting him with a Hitler mustache), or displaying swastikas in the context of implying that Obama and/or his administration are Nazi-like...."

Zombie says: "...Since I had a front-row seat between 2003 and 2008 at anti-Bush protests in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I saw literally THOUSANDS of Bush/Hitler comparisons and swastikas, I thought perhaps it would be useful to compile here in one place a small sampling of them — to prove beyond any doubt that Hitler and swastikas were referenced incessantly at basically every single protest during the Bush administration. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying, as is anyone who claims that people who bring swastikas to rallies are necessarily self-identifying as Nazis...." Zombie also includes links to other blogs who have assembled similar collections.

I am posting this in response to a question posed by a commentor:

Why not show the whole clip Rose? You always talk about putting stuff in context. This stuff is absolutely great! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/index?tsp=1

This lady had a photo of Obama altered to resemble Hitler! Would you listen to anyone who compared you to a person who killed hundreds of thousands of people? What a joke! Bravo for Frank putting her in her place. And you think Frank belongs in prison? Ha!

Somehow, I didn't hear a single left-winger condemn that then, nor apologize for it now. As for the lousy legislators like Pelosi, Reid and Frank, they welcomed this shit, with a wink, wink, nod, nod, knowing that the people that did these things were all part of the discredit Bush plan. NOW, real people are responding, and they don't like hearing from the people they are supposed to represent but don't, being too busy following the Soros/Progressive/Democratic PARTY dictates.

OH - and while we are at it - And, while we are at it - ◼ CNN Fails To ID Woman Who Compared Obama To Hitler As LaRouche Democrat

I think we all have a RIGHT to attendants too

And I want you to pass it RIGHT NOW without reading what we stick in the bill... We want the same treatment Michelle Obama gets: ◼ Michelle Obama, as we reported on July 7, is not served by twenty-two attendants who stand by to cater to her every whim. She is served by twenty-six attendants, including a hair dresser and make-up artist.

The annual cost to taxpayers for such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000 without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant.

That comes out to roughly $67,300.00 per “attendant”, of course some make over twice the average and some half.
◼ FIRST LADY NOW REQUIRES TWENTY-SIX SERVANTS ...more than any First Lady in U.S. History

“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service,”

Michelle Obama.

Pretty cushy deal for a woman who has gotten used to cushy deals.

Another polar expedition trapped in ice, LOL

◼ Rescue Me! Another polar expedition trapped in ice
Gosh, this is becoming a theme. Intrepid sailors/hikers/tourists/scientists/ecologists head for the Arctic with intent to show the world how the Arctic is melting, get stuck in/on the ice, or hopelessly battered, and end up needing rescue by those evil fossil fuel belching rescue ships, helicopters, and planes.... READ THE REST AT ◼ wattsupwiththat.com

Groundbreaker

◼ Vogue model Liskula Cohen wins right to unmask offensive blogger
A Vogue cover girl has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a “skank” on the internet.

In a case with potentially far-reaching repercussions, Liskula Cohen sought the identity of the blogger who maligned her on the Skanks in NYC blog so that she could sue him or her for defamation.

A Manhattan supreme court judge ruled that she was entitled to the information and ordered Google, which ran the offending blog, to turn it over....

I dunno, being called a skank is not justification for this. And what does she do once she knows who it is? Watch out Perez Hilton.

The GRASSROOTS Lie EXPOSED like never before

◼ Obama to rally grass roots backers on health care
President Barack Obama will Thursday hold a live online and telephone strategy meeting to rally devoted grass roots backers as a backlash over his health reform plan spreads to liberal media commentators.

"Grassroots" orgs are the sacred cows of our country, and these new-age con men use it as a fleece cloak. They have gotten away with it for years. Now this ugly hydra is showing itself for what it is. In full spectacular Hi-definition TV.

See it for what it is. Liars, cheats and thieves, duping the masses. Cold and calculating, dedicated, and dangerously persistent, they have sent busloads of ACORN/SEIU goons to threaten working people, and now in an act of final desperation, they hope to continue the charade, but the REAL PEOPLE, who are being ignored, see that the Emperor has no clothes.

Don't Worry

Pretend he is RUNNING for office...

If this candidate behaved this way, talked to you, talked to people in the audience this way - would you elect him in the first place? You've been to candidate forums, you've watched debates, you know how they act when they want your vote. They are respectful. Would you vote for this man? And what happens to them once they get elected? What would make him act this way towards the PEOPLE who have come to talk to him.

Big Pharma is not Halliburton and Obama is not Bush

So don't expect to see CNN/MSNBC/Katie Couric on this:

◼ Bloomberg's Timothy J. Burger reports the pharmaceutical lobby, PhRMA, has hired David Axelrod's AKPD Media -- a fact that raises eyebrows because Axelrod sold the firm under an agreement that left it owing him $2 million, a lot of money for a political media company.

It's hard to imagine a situation in which, say, Karl Rove was still getting checks from a firm that was, in turn, employed by the drug lobby not drawing fire from the left, and Axelrod's arrangement is, a bit belatedly, getting that attention....

Last year, the Obama campaign paid $2.77 million in consulting fees to AKPD and $340.53 million to GMMB to produce and place ads, Federal Election Commission records show. Firms such as GMMB typically receive a low-to-mid single-digit percentage of ad spending as their fee for an account of that size, said Glenn Totten, a Democratic political consultant.

Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until he sold his interest after Obama’s victory, government records show. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, which it’s due to pay in installments beginning Dec. 31. Axelrod’s son, Michael, still works there. He didn’t return a phone call. The firm’s Web site continues to feature David Axelrod’s work on the Obama campaign....

◼ Atlas Shrugs reports: As the pharmaceutical industry spends hundreds of millions supporting a government takeover of health care—one which drug companies obviously believe will increase their profits, even as it raises Medicare premiums for seniors—some may wonder whether White House senior advisors earning millions of dollars paid for in part by the pharmaceutical industry represents the kind of change Americans can believe in.
◼ Culture of Corruption: Axelrod’s big problem
The firm became the source of some controversy during the presidential campaign, when The Washington Post reported that in 2006, Michelle Obama urged the University of Chicago’s hospital, where she served as an executive, to hire ASK to drum up community support for a controversial urban health initiative.
◼ PhRMA Gets the Lando Calrissian Deal
◼ Axelrod’s profits: Uh, who’s on the take from the drug lobby again?!?!
Culture of Corruption also hones in on the cozy cash deals involving Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Susan Sher, and David Axelrod to create faux grass-roots support for the University of Chicago Medical Center’s patient-dumping scheme.
Now, Bloomberg’s Timothy Burger brings news about Axelrod’s latest health care conflicts of interest that will come as no surprise to those who have fully informed themselves of the Chicago way. While White House press secretary Robert Gibbs assails the motives of grass-roots activists by falsely smearing the movement as corporate-funded shills, Barack Obama’s own senior adviser and chief Astroturfer raked in millions of dollars from Big Pharma.

And the Obama Administration just got busted for LYING about the deal they struck with Big Pharma that has them buying ads supporting whatever the heck Obama's idea of health care is...

C'mon, reporters, have you any pride left?

Why can't Congress be like John Mackey?

◼ Whole Foods Fight
“The last thing our country needs is a massive new health care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health care system.”

Mackey went on to offer eight ideas for reforms, including these four:

◆ Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs).

◆ Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.

◆Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.

◆ Revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

So, here's a guy who is clearly pointing out that the Emperor has no clothes - and he is RIGHT!

What does he get? Attacked. Our CONGRESSMEN, our Representatives SHOULD have been saying this all along. But they are fools.

◼ John Mackey is the CEO of Whole Foods Market, Inc., the world's most successful organic grocery chain, with 167 stores and almost 30,000 employees.

A profile in the April 6, 1998 issue of Forbes magazine, entitled "New Age Capitalist" described Mackey as a "bushy-haired libertarian" and "crusader for capitalism" who is concerned about health and the environment, and who voted Libertarian in the previous presidential election.

◼ Liberal Moonbats Bite The Hand That Feeds Them afrocity
◼ Whole Foods, Ct’d… Radley Balko theagitator.com
◼ CEO Offends Customers by Advocating for Their Best Interests freemarketmojo

Blogger's "job was basically to publish information which would cause other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest"

◼
Attorney: FBI trained NJ blogger to incite others

I'm seeing a pattern develop.

"The discovery of glycine in a comet supports the idea that the fundamental building blocks of life are prevalent in space"

◼ Building block of life found on comet

"all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ," Alkhateeb said. "From my perspective, there wasn't much substance to him."

◼ Obama Joker artist unmasked: A fellow Chicagoan
...a 20-year-old college student from Chicago.... Bored during his winter school break, Firas Alkhateeb, a senior history major at the University of Illinois, crafted the picture of Obama with the recognizable clown makeup using Adobe's Photoshop software.

Alkhateeb had been tinkering with the program to improve the looks of photos he had taken on his clunky Kodak camera. The Joker project was his grandest undertaking yet. Using a tutorial he'd found online about how to "Jokerize" portraits, he downloaded the October 23 Time Magazine cover of Obama and began digitally painting over it.

Four or five hours later, he happily had his product.

On Jan. 18, Alkhateeb uploaded the image to photo-sharing site Flickr (shown at right). Over the next two months, he amassed just a couple thousand hits, he said.

Then the counter exploded after a still-anonymous rogue famously found his image, digitally removed the references to Time Magazine, captioned the picture with the word "socialism" and hung printed copies around L.A., making headlines....

..."After Obama was elected, you had all of these people who basically saw him as the second coming of Christ," Alkhateeb said. "From my perspective, there wasn't much substance to him."

"I abstained from voting in November," he wrote in an e-mail. "Living in Illinois, my vote means close to nothing as there was no chance Obama would not win the state." If he had to choose a politician to support, Alkhateeb said, it would be Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

“You can just engineer a crime scene”

◼ DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show

“DNA is a lot easier to plant at a crime scene than fingerprints,” she said. “We’re creating a criminal justice system that is increasingly relying on this technology.” h/t: Drudge

Chicago vote stats

◼ chicagovote part1
◼ chicagovote part2

Some of you know how to read 'em. Have fun.

Speedo-Sporting Swimmers Race In Fountain

Zefrey Throwell

MASSA (D): I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district

◼ Video - Rep. Massa: I will vote against the interests of my district
...I am in one of the most right wing Republican districts in the country...

And you ran for office to REPRESENT them, buddy. What part of that do you not understand? Were you lying? WHO do you think you represent? The Democratic party? Or your constituents?

Does this man belong in office?

Conservatives Now Outnumber Liberals in All 50 States,

◼ Says Gallup Poll
◼ breakdown
ACORN has its work cut out for it. Better order more buses.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has designed a rather curious poster

Yes, We Cannabis
◼ Another Photographer Angry: NORML Rides the Bandwagon h/t: avid

Check it out: Liberal organizations, advertising now on Craigslist, pay you $325 - $500 a week to tramp around to various town hall meetings

◼ What Obama’s Town Hall Charade and Pam Anderson’s Breasts Have in Common
Now, thanks to Obama’s Rent-a-Mob, thoughtless people watching this past week’s Clown Hall were left thinking after Tuesday’s tête-à-tête that everyone is cool with his granny-slaying, obfuscated to the hundredth power, 1,100 page bill (Or is it bills? Heck, who knows?). Yes, “everyone loves it, everyone wants it by tomorrow, and unicorns and centaurs are real!”

The only problem with the Portsmouth town hall is that it was more artificially stacked with Obama lap dogs than Pam Anderson’s ta-tas are with boat caulk. Of course the meeting was upbeat and thumping . . . it was contrived. h/t: skep

Celebs without Makeup

OBAMA PULLS PLUG ON FLAG@WHITEHOUSE.GOV...

EMAILS BOUNCE BACK, Drudge reports.
◼ Did the White House lower the flag@whitehouse.gov? HotAir
◼ Internet Snitch Brigade disabled, but… the health care czar’s office (background here) and Obama Chicago crony Valerie Jarrett’s staff (background here) are hard at work pumping out O-care propaganda — and still collecting e-mail addresses — at the government-funded website “Reality Check.”

We need a law against co-mingling government DOT GOV and DOT ORG. And fast.

Headline on Drudge

◼ RETREAT: TEAM OBAMA DROPS 'PUBLIC OPTION' yahoo news
◼ Administration Backtracks From This Morning's Public Option Backtrack
...the Administration is backing away from Sebelius as fast as they can:
Administration Official: "Sebelius Misspoke."... Yid With Lid

Big money doesn't always win, maybe Soros' day in the sun is over

◼ Obama Backers Outspend Conservative Opponents Nearly 3-to-1 on Healthcare Ads
Organizing for America, the reconstituted Obama campaign team, is working hand in hand with the Democratic National Committee and features the “It’s time” commercial on its Web site.

Liberal groups such as MoveOn.org are presenting more personal attacks against conservative House Democrats, including Representatives John Barrow of Georgia, Jim Matheson of Utah, and Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, all of whom voted against a Democratic health bill in committee. The advertisements tell viewers in those districts that their congressman “sided with the special interests and insurance companies.”

Another Astroturfer Fraud exposed

◼ Maxine Johnson Lies On National Television 24thstate
◼ Town Hall Disrupter Maxine Johnson Exposed as a Fraud & Liar Gateway Pundit
◼ Maxine Johnson Exposed as Liar, Fraud, and Racist stlouisteaparty.com

Free Beer For Everyone!

◼ An ObamaCare protest in San Francisco. via instapundit h/t: jewels
“If you can get a few 300-500 anti-liberal protesters onto the streets of San Francisco, well, it can only mean there must be a disturbance in the Force.”
◼ Reader Report from San Francisco Rally Against Obamacare

Links of the day OMG

Too many good ones.

Like this - Orwell speak 'Self determined dying'
◼ Euthanasia advocates authored part of Obamacare - 'Self determined dying' compared to 'women's reproductive health'

Can we stop with the phony names? Garbagemen are not "Sanitation Engineers." And 'Self determined dying' is - - Geezus! Is there no end to this?
◼ Culture of corruption: more embezzlement charges against Detroit Public Schools workers
◼ RI (Rhode Island)Can't Find Stimulus Money
◼ Swine flu jab linked to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America

◼ Obama Motors Unveils First Car A little humor.


◼ Why Muslim Charities Fund the Jihad Pajamas Media
◼ Get the Popcorn: Hamas, Al Qaeda Kill Each Other in Gaza
◼ Inside the Taliban: 'The more troops they send, the more targets we have'
◼ Breaking: Large Explosion In Kabul UPDATE: 7 Dead, 91 Wounded

◼ Trial lawyers seek return on contributions to Senate Democrats

In February, just two months before he became a Democrat, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania made a passionate plea for a special tax break for plaintiffs' trial lawyers. His bill, S 437, would allow trial lawyers to deduct immediately on their taxes up-front expenses they incur when investing in contingency lawsuits.
The tax break is reportedly worth $1.6 billion to trial lawyers. If Specter’s amendment passes, this single provision would more than repay the legal industry for its roughly $762 million in political contributions to Democrats over the last two decades.
Which would, in turn, mean more money could be recycled and funneled back to Democrats.

◼ Americans Had to Work from January 1 to August 12 This Year Just to Cover Cost of Government

“Cost of Government Day” this year fell on Wednesday, August 12, according to Americans for Tax Reform, the conservative group that calculates when the day occurs. Cost of Government Day is the day in the year when the American people have earned enough income to pay the total cost of the spending and regulatory burden imposed by government at the federal, state, and local level.

The August 12 date is 26 days later than Cost of Government Day came last year, when it fell on July 16.

◼ Where Are The Buses? Here Are The Buses – Caught On Tape!: Astroturf Buses Leaving Townhall Event

◼ No surprise here: Obama's obese surgeon general nominee on Burger King payroll
◼ The Venus Project
◼ Watch issued for Dutch Antilles as Tropical Storm Ana nears

Hilarious Boxer letter

◼ Check it out.

Obama blast insurers, but not big pharma UPDATED

Because Big Pharma agreed to sign ON to his plan and their big ad buys is FOR his plan, to distort public perception in his favor, they get a pass, and are to be protected, but the insurance companies are the convenient villain, and he blasts them for trying to influence the debate.

Good for one, but not the other apparently, just another example of Obama's pigs being more equal than others.

◼ Obama Says Insurers Are Trying to Block Change

It certainly is not Presidential for him to be trying to force his will upon the people, for whom he is supposed to work, and to whom he is supposed to be listening. Throwing up the insurance companies as an attempt at a smokescreen is another act of desperation.

It never ends:
◼ Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama’s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president by taking on his push for health-care overhaul.

One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist.

This year, AKPD and GMMB received $12 million in advertising business from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, that is seeking to build support for a health-care overhaul, said the coalition’s spokesman, Jeremy Van Ess.

Hiring Obama’s campaign advisers makes sense, said Julius Hobson, a senior policy adviser in the Washington office of the St. Louis-based law firm, Bryan Cave LLP.

“If you’re in support of the president, then you use the people he used,” said Hobson, 61, who teaches a graduate course in lobbying at George Washington University in Washington.

Michelle Malkin is SO right - Culture. Of. Corruption.
Update:
◼ Obama Backers Outspend Conservative Opponents Nearly 3-to-1 on Healthcare Ads
Organizing for America, the reconstituted Obama campaign team, is working hand in hand with the Democratic National Committee and features the “It’s time” commercial on its Web site.

Liberal groups such as MoveOn.org are presenting more personal attacks against conservative House Democrats, including Representatives John Barrow of Georgia, Jim Matheson of Utah, and Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, all of whom voted against a Democratic health bill in committee. The advertisements tell viewers in those districts that their congressman “sided with the special interests and insurance companies.”

Dennis Miller on Harry Reid

Every bit the truth.

And even funnier - The 1/2 Hour News Hour was an American television news satire show on the Fox News Channel. The program presented news stories from a conservative perspective, using a satirical format pioneered by Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and The Daily Show.
The first pilot aired on February 18, 2007, and the second on March 4, 2007. Fox News Channel later purchased 13 more episodes of the show, which started airing on May 13, 2007. The show was cancelled and the final episode aired on September 23, 2007.

That long ago, and still timely

Silencing Dissent? There's an App for That

◼ Pajamas TV
h/t: skep

And in CA

No one really even noticed... ◼ San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong is leaving the San Francisco Police Department with a healthy retirement package, collecting $229,500 a year for life.
h/t: sunjester

Krauthammer: Desperation time. What do you do?

◼ The Great 'Prevention' Myth

Another phony

◼ Black Man Pleads Guilty to Posing as Obama-Hating White Supremacist on Facebook h/t: jewels
The U.S. Attorney's Office says 20-year-old Dyron L. Hart of Poplarville pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008.

Hart admitted creating a name and using a white supremacists' photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.

Goddammit! Things like this have repercussions, they should throw the book at him. Innocent people get targeted by The US Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano.

Recycle Congress!

Thanks,Wolff!

"If it was completely wrong for Sarah Palin to say "death panels," why did the Senate scuttle the provision she was talking about?"

◼ Why didn't the congressional Democrats defend their own bill? If it was so terribly wrong to say "death panels" — and what indignation was expressed! — then why wasn't it easy to crush stupid, crazy Sarah for what she so outrageously said? By backing down and removing the language she leveraged, they not only seem to admit she had a point, they sacrifice credibility that they need to promote what's left of the bill. Althouse

A must read.

vive la différence

◼ ‘06 FLASHBACK: PELOSI TELLS ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS ‘I’M A FAN OF DISRUPTORS’ Breitbart TV
This dishonest, vicious partisan hack, Nancy Pelosi, on her kind of protestors, wink-wink-nod-nod.
Nancy said then: "Because they're hearing from home. There's nothing more articulate, more eloquent than the voice of his or her own constituents."
Now she calls us Nazis. Contrast this.

So what changed? (And btw, LOOK AT THE SIGNS. The Leftist Astroturfers always have professional matching signs)

Given everything you know

about this administration calling ORDINARY people terrorists, Nazis and "evil-mongers," falsely portraying them as "Tim McVeigh's" for SIMPLY EXERCISING THIER RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, AND TO PARTICIPATE IN DEMOCRACY in this country - what do you make of this?

◼ Obama's Safety: Fear Grows for President as Hate Groups Thrive on Racial Backlash

I call BS on this. Asking questions about the Health Care proposal, and being angry about the responses of Obama, Pelosi and Reid et al IS NOT in any way shape or form a physical threat to the President's life. It simply isn't. And to categorize your law-abiding citizens this way is reprehensible, and yes, it is dangerous.

Dangerous, because what we are seeing is in fact the opposite of threats to Obama. What we are in fact seeing is our legislators and the President's stormtroopers using THE POWER OF POLICE to stop ordinary people from attending public functions. Look at the video of the Police blocking people from asking questions at an ACORN rally, look at Feinstein.

Dangerous because this President uses the power of words and imagery to justify actions. And it is looking like he is gearing up for action against citizens who disagree with him. But it will all be couched in Orwellian doublespeak, that will blame the victims.

I don't like it.

FLAG YOURSELF!

PASS IT ON.
Think of it as a confessional... "I have had impure thoughts about Zerocare."

Obama and Big Pharma

◼ Smoking gun: Memo proves secret deal denied by Obama and pharma? HotAir
◼ Video: The mother of all ObamaCare liesHotAir
◼ NAKED EMPEROR NEWS: ‘OBAMA’S MOTHER OF ALL POLITICAL LIES AND THE TOWN HALL MAYHEM IT CAUSED’ Breitbart
◼ Um, who’s bought and paid for by the drug lobby? Michelle Malkin
◼ Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma Huffington Post

A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week.

The memo, which according to a knowledgeable health care lobbyist was prepared by a person directly involved in the negotiations, lists exactly what the White House gave up, and what it got in return....

Stories in the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times last week indicated that the administration was confirming that such a deal had been made....

◼ Obama gives powerful drug lobby a seat at healthcare table LA Times

The pharmaceutical industry, once condemned by the president as a source of healthcare problems, has become a White House partner.

◼ White House Affirms Deal on Drug Cost NY Times

Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion....

◼ Naked Emperor News is a Video News site.

◼ REVEALED: SECRET OBAMA-PhARMA DEAL MEMO BOTH PARTIES HAVE DENIED FOR WEEK Ace Of Spades

Caught on memo: The specific pledges the White House denies.

And bear in mind Big Pharma's promise to spend up to $150 million in television ads pimping Obama's plan.

The Obama administration has dug in its heels and taken a hard, unwavering line with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez

not over human rights issues, but because Chavez and his loyalists were pushing to close two of Venezuela's best-known golf courses...

...There was no immediate reaction from Chavez, who has been crazy busy closing radio stations and planning hypothetical war with Colombia and the U.S.

◼ State Department comes out swinging over Chavez's golf insults

Stung, Harry Reid demeans citizens

Harry Reid didn't get his way. Poor baby.

Stung by not succeeding at pushing Zerocare through before the public had a chance to look at it, read it, understand it, discuss it, and amend, approve OR reject it - and stung by the VEHEMENT response from the public, who are genuinely OUTRAGED at what they have seen Reid and his cronies pull in the last 8 months, Reid's only response is to attack.

It is the hallmark of the current crop of Democrats in control of Congress right now, and in control of the White House right now - to forget that they work for the people. All the people. Not their party. Not their specially approved pets, the special interest ORGs. Not their party cronies.

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are two of the most despicable politicians to come down the pike. They are not the only ones. The list is long, and it is being exposed on a daily basis.

Like this: ◼ Reid: Protesters are 'evil-mongers'

Another new example:Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) apologized yesterday for accusing town hall protesters of "brown shirt tactics" and comparing them to a "lynch mob." ◼ Baird apologizes for 'brown shirt' comments

"I can feel Global Warming when I am flying!"

Well, ok, that's paraphrased a bit. The actual quote is "Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I'm flying."

Now, it was a Saturday NIght Live actress who said "I can see Russia from my house."

THIS is a SITTING UNITED STATES SENATOR. But, she is a (D), so she will get a pass.

Never mind that her own state, Michigan, just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven't risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn't even make a list of Michigan voters' top-ten concerns.

Love this quote: And there are sea monsters in Lake Michigan. I can feel them when I'm boating.

(Image source, by the way, exemplifies one of the many ways she is pushing an agenda, ◼ a longstanding, well-funded agenda )

She's also the 'babe' who is married to the AirAmerica exec who tried pushing the 'Fairness Doctine" to eliminate competition for her husband's privately funded endeavor. Despicable to her core.

◼ Question: Which SNL comedian will play Debbie Stabenow? Michelle Malkin gets it

Meg Whitman coming to Humboldt

Meg Whitman coming to Humboldt
Baywood Golf & Country Club
August 25th - 5:30-7:00 pm

For info:
Contact Humboldt Republican Women, Federated
President Colleen Hedrick: 268-0101

◼ oldgloryradio.com

There are updates to the PHONY DOCTOR/WHITE HOUSE ASTROTURFING

◼ Here, if you are following it. Trying to keep new links added as they pop up. If you have any, post 'em in comments.

◼ Roxana Mayer Invited to Town Hall by Obama Organizer Who Sported Che Guevara Poster at Obama Campaign Office and wait until you see the PICTURES of them together even after she tries to pretend there is no real relationship.

◼ Obama camp plants fake doc, Che fan at Jackson Lee forum LoneStarTimes

The only question now should be - how long has this been going on? How blatant is it? How many more like this are there?

New Low

◼ rasmussen

Mindblower

This is JUST THE FEDERAL DEBT
◼ usdebtclock.org

Scheduled Town Hall Meetings:

Thu Aug 13, 2009
10:00am Peter DeFazio, Brookings, OR
12:00pm Peter DeFazio, Gold Beach, OR
1:00pm Steven Rothman, Secaucus, NJ
1:30pm Byron Dorgan, Langdon, ND
2:00pm Peter DeFazio, Port Orford, OR
3:00pm Arlen Specter (PA)
3:30pm Arlen Specter, Kittanning, PA
3:30pm Byron Dorgan, Cando, ND
4:00pm David Wu, Seaside, OR
5:15pm Peter DeFazio, North Bend, OR
7:00pm Diane Watson, 33rd District, CA
7:00pm Steven Rothman, Hackensack, NJ
(see ◼ Red State's sidebar gadget for complete upcoming list)

I'll give Spectre this, he is taking the heat like a man.

Read up, if you're going: ◼ It’s IN the Bill: Dems Cannot Deny What We Can Read With Our Own Eyes! Flopping Aces

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