Sarah Palin and William Shatner in a 'Read-Off' Great TV

The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah by Jack Cashill, American Thinker

American Thinker: The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah

In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grumman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister.

At that same time, in America's other new outlier state, Hawaii, two-year-old Barry Obama was just getting used to a fatherless existence in the otherwise-comfortable world his white grandparents and occasionally his mother would make for him.

At the time, not even Nostradamus could have foretold that the paths of Barry and Sarah would intersect in the "historic" 2008 election, Barry as the first major party presidential nominee of African descent and Sarah as the first woman with a real shot at the vice-presidency.

Each would change names before reaching the national stage. Barry Obama would become Barry Soetero, and then Barack Obama. Sarah Heath would become Sarah Palin after eloping with the formidable Todd Palin. Obama would chronicle his journey in the 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father and the 2006 sequel, The Audacity of Hope. Palin would chronicle hers in the 2009 memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life.

How the literary/media establishment would respond to the respective memoirs of these two political figures would reveal far less about the authenticity, honesty, and literary quality of the tales the authors told than it would about the collective mindset of that establishment.

From a classical perspective, Palin's is the more compelling narrative. The obstacles that she must overcome to fulfill her destiny are many, varied, and real. Raised in the frozen outback by a schoolteacher father and a school secretary mom, Palin accomplishes nothing without a good deal of work, often under difficult physical circumstances.

Palin takes a semester or two off to pay for college. She works at a diner over the summer. She enters the Miss Alaska contest to help pay tuition and is awarded second runner-up and "Miss Congeniality." She interns during other summers to become a sports reporter.

After college, Palin joins fiancé Todd on his Bristol Bay salmon boat. During slow salmon runs, she works "messy, obscure seafood jobs" until she can find a job as sports reporter, and even then she keeps returning to Bristol Bay when the salmon are in season.

Throughout this period, despite the hard work and harsh environment, Palin never loses her sense of wonder about the spectacular natural theater in which she is so very much at home. When asked about the state's best attributes during a Miss Alaska pageant, Palin responds, "its beauty and everything that the great Alaska outdoors has to offer." Prophetically, she also plugs the state's "potential in drilling for oil," which, even then, "Outsiders don't understand."

Back in Hawaii, either through his grandparents' connections or by dint of affirmative action, Obama spends grades five through twelve at Hawaii's poshest prep school. Like Palin, he plays basketball, but while she is leading her school to the state championship, he is a second stringer on a team whose wins and losses go unremarked. The only scores Obama shares are the imagined racial ones that need to be settled, a working out of his "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against [his] mother's race."

In his recent book Barack and Michelle, Christopher Andersen quotes a black friend who rejected Obama's claimed reason for being benched in a particular game.

No, Barry, it's not because you're black. It's because you missed two shots in a row.

Obama admits to "marginal report cards" in prep school, but his underperformance does not diminish his dreams. He hits the mainland in the late 1970s with the "diversity" movement in full flower. Diversity's rationale is that people of varied cultures enrich the educational experience. Obama's upbringing, however, has been thoroughly white and elitist. The diversity bean-counters couldn't care less. His skin color improves their "metrics." Obama will ride this pony far.

After two druggy, uninspired years at Occidental College, Obama transfers to the Ivy League -- Columbia, to be precise. In Dreams, Obama dedicates one half of a sentence to a summer job on a construction site. Otherwise, he is silent on how his tuition might have been paid for. As to his grades and SAT scores, it would be easier to pry North Korea's nuclear secrets out of Kim Jong-Il.

After several years as a low-paid community organizer in Chicago, Obama decides to return to law school. Despite a lack of resources and a mediocre performance at Columbia -- he does not graduate with honors -- Obama limits his choices to "Harvard, Yale, Stanford." He had absorbed the diversity zeitgeist deeply enough to see success as an entitlement.

In the spring of 1989, during Obama's first year at Harvard Law, Palin's "life truly began" with the birth of her oldest son, Track. That summer, with Todd working a blue-collar job on the North Slope oil fields, Palin, her father, and their Eskimo partner work Todd's commercial fishing boat in Bristol Bay. Palin's mother, meanwhile, baby-sits the ten-week-old Track.

In 1992, while an anxious Obama dithers in an office that the University of Chicago has given him to write Dreams, half of his $150,000 advance already cashed, Palin is pulling her babies, Track and Bristol, along on a sled as she goes door-to-door seeking votes in her run for Wasilla city council.

Not yet thirty, Palin settles upon the philosophy that will guide her political career: reducing taxes "and redefining government's proper role." Like few Republicans this side of Ronald Reagan, Palin will adhere to these principles throughout her political ascent.

Not surprisingly, Palin's tenacity makes enemies among those who have cashed in their Republican heritage for the perks and power of office. Palin's perseverance in the face of this resistance makes for compelling political drama. That she is a woman challenging the good old boys of backroom Alaska heightens that drama.

Yet despite pushing the boundaries of female accomplishment throughout her career -- as sports reporter, as commercial fisherman, as councilwoman, as mayor, as oil and gas commissioner, as governor, as vice-presidential candidate -- Palin never loses her sense of the feminine. Having five children surely helps. So does living in an environment where manly virtues still matter.

An exchange with the larger-than-life Todd helps clarify Alaskan reality. Todd is a four-time winner of the Iron Dog competition, a 2,200 mile snowmobiling marathon. One night, Sarah expresses interest in competing. Says Todd:

Can you get the back end of a six-hundred-pound machine unstuck by yourself with open water up to your thighs, then change out an engine at forty below in the pitch black on a frozen river and replace thrashed shocks and jury rig a suspension using tree limbs along the trail?

When Sarah answers "Nope," Todd replies, "Then go back to sleep, Sarah." Todd lives his Eskimo heritage. He does not just dream about it, let alone exploit it.

While Palin is slugging through Alaska's political morass like a determined Iditarod musher, Obama is cruising through Illinois politics on skids greased by his Chicago cronies. In his 2004 run for U.S. Senate, both his chief primary opponent and his expected general election opponent are undone by damaging personal information leaked to the media. Obama wins both elections easily.

The combination of his black genes and white upbringing makes the famously "articulate and bright and clean" Obama an irresistible choice to keynote the race-conscious 2004 Democratic convention. "I mean, that's a storybook, man," alleges the inimitable Joe Biden.

The story told in Dreams will become a huge bestseller in the wake of the 2004 convention. The lofty, lyrical style of the book will seal the Ivy-educated Obama's reputation as a genius, and its much-celebrated narrative would serve as a foundational myth for Obama's ascent to the White House.

Said NEA chairman Rocco Landesman just last month, reiterating the accepted wisdom of the chattering classes, "This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln."

The establishment will not be so kind to Palin. In the week of Going Rogue's release, the New York Times house conservative David Brooks will call her "a joke." Dick Cavett, the Norma Desmond of TV talk, will dismiss her as a "know-nothing." Ex-con Dem fundraiser Martha Stewart will brand Palin "a dangerous person." And literally thousands of lesser liberal lights will deride her as "stupid," an "idiot," or a "moron" (8.5 million Google hits and counting for "Palin" "moron").

In that same week, Chris Matthews was worrying out loud that Obama was "too darned intellectual," and author Michael Eric Dyson was celebrating Obama's "sexy brilliance." But while the Associated Press was sending a platoon of reporters to fact-check Palin's book, neither the AP nor any other media outlet dared check either Dreams or Audacity of Hope.

They likely feared what they would find -- namely that Obama's genius depends solely on his willingness to lie about it. "I've written two books," Obama told a crowd of teachers in Virginia last year. "I actually wrote them myself." He did no such thing. He had massive help with both books.

Although the prose of Dreams is often lyrical, it is not Obama's. As I have argued in these pages, and as Christopher Andersen has confirmed, Obama's gifted friend Bill Ayers gussied up the rough outlines of Obama's life and imposed upon them the mythic dimensions of Homer's Odyssey. To accomplish this, the authors invented any number of incidents, many of which are easily disproved. For a serious seeker of facts, Dreams is Sutter Creek in 1848.

In Going Rogue, by contrast, Palin does not shy from crediting Lynn Vincent for "her indispensable help in getting the words on paper." And yet the story is told honestly and sincerely in Palin's voice. There is no artifice, no postmodern mumbo-jumbo, and not a sentence in the book that Palin could not have written herself. My personal favorite, "I love meat." I suspect that, unaided, journalism major and former reporter Palin is a better writer than Obama.

Left to their own devices, Palin is clearly the better speaker. In Going Rogue's climactic moment, the unknown Palin serves up the most dazzling convention speech in modern political history, and she does so in spite of a malfunctioning teleprompter. "I knew the speech well enough that I didn't need it," writes Palin.

Had Obama's teleprompter malfunctioned at the 2004 convention, he would not be president. He has always depended on the eloquence of others. So thoroughly hooked on the teleprompter is Obama that the irrepressible Biden jokes about it. "What am I going to tell the president?" Biden asked the crowd at the Air Force Academy after a teleprompter blew over. "Tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?"

In the final analysis, Going Rogue is a better book than Dreams. No Republican has ever held Palin up as a genius, literary or otherwise, but her narrative is as shrewd, sensitive, and straightforward as its author.

Dreams, on the other hand, is merely a well-crafted fraud.

Manhattan Declaration

Authors: Chuck Colson, Robert P. George, Timothy George

The Executive Summary:
(click link above to read it in its entirety)

Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are (1) the sanctity of human life, (2) the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife, and (3) the rights of conscience and religious liberty. Inasmuch as these truths are foundational to human dignity and the well-being of society, they are inviolable and non-negotiable. Because they are increasingly under assault from powerful forces in our culture, we are compelled today to speak out forcefully in their defense, and to commit ourselves to honoring them fully no matter what pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or compromise them. We make this commitment not as partisans of any political group but as followers of Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Lord, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Human Life

The lives of the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly are ever more threatened. While public opinion has moved in a pro-life direction, powerful and determined forces are working to expand abortion, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. Although the protection of the weak and vulnerable is the first obligation of government, the power of government is today often enlisted in the cause of promoting what Pope John Paul II called "the culture of death." We pledge to work unceasingly for the equal protection of every innocent human being at every stage of development and in every condition. We will refuse to permit ourselves or our institutions to be implicated in the taking of human life and we will support in every possible way those who, in conscience, take the same stand.

Marriage

The institution of marriage, already wounded by promiscuity, infidelity and divorce, is at risk of being redefined and thus subverted. Marriage is the original and most important institution for sustaining the health, education, and welfare of all. Where marriage erodes, social pathologies rise. The impulse to redefine marriage is a symptom, rather than the cause, of the erosion of the marriage culture. It reflects a loss of understanding of the meaning of marriage as embodied in our civil law as well as our religious traditions. Yet it is critical that the impulse be resisted, for yielding to it would mean abandoning the possibility of restoring a sound understanding of marriage and, with it, the hope of rebuilding a healthy marriage culture. It would lock into place the false and destructive belief that marriage is all about romance and other adult satisfactions, and not, in any intrinsic way, about the unique character and value of acts and relationships whose meaning is shaped by their aptness for the generation, promotion and protection of life. Marriage is not a "social construction," but is rather an objective reality - the covenantal union of husband and wife - that it is the duty of the law to recognize, honor, and protect.

Religious Liberty

Freedom of religion and the rights of conscience are gravely jeopardized. The threat to these fundamental principles of justice is evident in efforts to weaken or eliminate conscience protections for healthcare institutions and professionals, and in anti-discrimination statutes that are used as weapons to force religious institutions, charities, businesses, and service providers either to accept (and even facilitate) activities and relationships they judge to be immoral, or go out of business. Attacks on religious liberty are dire threats not only to individuals, but also to the institutions of civil society including families, charities, and religious communities. The health and well-being of such institutions provide an indispensable buffer against the overweening power of government and is essential to the flourishing of every other institution - including government itself - on which society depends.

Unjust Laws

As Christians, we believe in law and we respect the authority of earthly rulers. We count it as a special privilege to live in a democratic society where the moral claims of the law on us are even stronger in virtue of the rights of all citizens to participate in the political process. Yet even in a democratic regime, laws can be unjust. And from the beginning, our faith has taught that civil disobedience is required in the face of gravely unjust laws or laws that purport to require us to do what is unjust or otherwise immoral. Such laws lack the power to bind in conscience because they can claim no authority beyond that of sheer human will.

Therefore, let it be known that we will not comply with any edict that compels us or the institutions we lead to participate in or facilitate abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide, euthanasia, or any other act that violates the principle of the profound, inherent, and equal dignity of every member of the human family.

Further, let it be known that we will not bend to any rule forcing us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality, marriage, and the family.

Further, let it be known that we will not be intimidated into silence or acquiescence or the violation of our consciences by any power on earth, be it cultural or political, regardless of the consequences to ourselves.

We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's.

Oliver Stone says Hugo Chavez is not a dictator he's a movie star

Oliver Stone's Hugo Chavez Film Makes Venice Premiere

who am I to disagree?

Just to keep Flu Deaths in perspective:

Regular flu has killed thousands since January - CNN.com:
"... even if there are swine-flu deaths outside Mexico -- and medical experts say there very well may be -- the virus would have a long way to go to match the roughly 36,000 deaths that seasonal influenza causes in the United States each year."

Benedict Arlen, buhh, bye!

Just like Benedict Arnold, Arlen Specter today showed his true colors.

Choosing to elevate himself above his country or constituents he joined the side he thought would allow him to win acclaim (and, of course, the next election).

Shame on you sir, and good riddance!

Napolitano says those from Canada still suspect

Reuters AlertNet - US says not testing travelers from Mexico for flu

obviously no one coming from Mexico poses any danger to us...

As Good An Argument As You Will Ever Need Against Mass Transit

A new flu that has killed up to 68 people in Mexico could start a global epidemic, the World Health Organization warned on Saturday, as tests showed the strain might be spreading in the United States.

Making Progress in the Global Warming Debate!

Only 34% Now Blame Humans for Global Warming

Minnesota's Missing Votes - WSJ.com

Minnesota's Missing Votes - WSJ.com: "Some Senate absentee ballots are more equal than others."

You may not be aware of this, but Coleman's appeal is based on the fact that Minnesota changes the rules about which votes should count.

Remember Florida 2000.

The Florida Supreme Court also allowed different counties to use differing standards as to what constituted a 'vote'.

THIS is what the U.S. Supreme Court found objectionable. All votes must be accorded the same standard.

Minnesota is attempting to pull the same shenanigans (and thus far, has).

Coleman should pursue this to the end -the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.

Coleman is not being a sore loser he is looking for equal treatment -equal protection for those who voted for him as well as those who voted for Franken.

So far this has not been the case.

People Who Believe The Constitution Are Now Terrorist Suspects

The Obama administration is loathe to use the word 'terrorist' to describe radical muslims who want to kill us, but seems quite comfortable with labeling America's own citizens as potential terrorist threats.

The report defines what such a group may look like

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.

After releasing the DHS Report warning, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro was asked to comment on it:

he said,

"The President is focused not on politics but rather taking the steps necessary to protect all Americans from the threat of violence and terrorism regardless of its origins."

(emphasis mine)

How dare they!?

Folks this may just be an attempt to frighten 'moderates' from joining the ranks of conservatives for fear of being called a terrorist (moderates hate labels), but in any case it is cause for concern if not alarm.

Do Christians Have a Place in Politics?

This article, and mainly the first sentence (see below) raises that question.

I am curious as to what people think about this -particularly Christians.

Christians at the Gate - Townhall.com:
"Is the Christian right finished as a political entity? Or, more to the point, are principled Christians finished with politics?"

World's Smartest, uh, man

Remind you of anybody?

Obama threatens CEOs

"Be careful gentlemen. My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."

I hope you're paying attention.

Take this Poll at USA Today

Click link. Vote 'yes/no/undecided'
Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?

The Lie of US Guns in Mexico

Sad Times We Live In

Army vet billed $3,000 for war wounds

Will They Ever Learn?

Wave the White Flag in the Limbaugh War

Reparations To Be Considered

Rep. John Conyers, D-MI, introduced a bill to "Form a Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African Americans"

The Bill: HR 20 IH; is here: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.40.IH:

Pay attention folks.


h/t to Michael Ledeen - The Corner on National Review Online

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures » The Foundry

Bush Deficit vs. Obama Deficit in Pictures » The Foundry

"DANGER Will Robinson!"

Dang it

RON SILVER DIES

Kathleen Parker Trys to Defend 'The Press'

Sounding like an abused girlfriend trying to defend her abusive beau Kathleen Parker
tries to defend those who mount a constant barrage against the very group -Conservatives of whom Kathleen purports to be a member.

For some time now Ms. Parker has been trying to explain to us all how loving and caring 'The Press' is when it's not drunk on power.

Unfortunately for her (and us) we've been there to see the abuse and most of us have seen fit to move on.

She seems surprised and disappointed that we who have been abused by 'The Press' would defend ourselves against it even to the point of fighting back.

Kath, if 'The Press' dies it will be because it brought that fate upon itself and we will not mourn.

The Problem

Good News: Banks start giving money back

Banks start giving back: "Apparently, the restrictions that Congress is putting on bailout monies is pushing a number of institutions to give the money back."

We're Setting Up For A Big Fight On The Right!

Michael Steele: Abortion an 'individual choice'

Must See Shot (twice!)

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Can You Spot 'Mini-Me'?

Some Good News for Today

South Carolina's Sanford to become first governor to reject funds

Laugh of the Day!

Sen. Specter says he's trying to lead the Republican Party

Warren Buffett to CNBC: Economy Has "Fallen Off a Cliff" - Warren Buffett Watch - CNBC.com

Warren Buffett to CNBC: Economy Has "Fallen Off a Cliff" - Warren Buffett Watch
- CNBC.com

Hmmm, this reminds me of something....

Obama Channels Richard Nixon

Obama calls the NY Times to exclaim:

'I am not a socialist!'

Connecticut Democrats Bully Catholics

Republican State Party Chairman Chris Healy:

This bill is a committee bill and would only see the light of day with the support and blessing of its leadership. Now, it seems clear that Democratic Party in Connecticut believes the state of Connecticut should be deciding how are churches are run.

Violate the First Amendment much!?

Yet Another Democrat Abuses and Bullies A Voter

Ya can't make this stuff up




btw, the guy had an appointment

New President, New Corps

The Taxed Take on the Taxer

*Language* (it is Rangel after all)


(h/t Hot Air! )
Jason Mattera does it again.
Nothing like a little taxpayer confrontation!

Mitt Romney Moves Up A Slot

Creative Minority Report: Shock! Palin Appoints Former Planned Parenthood Member to Supreme Court

Steele to Rush: I'm sorry - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com

Steele to Rush: I'm sorry - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com

A Dark Day for America

Obama rolls back Bush “conscience rule”: (from Ed Morrissey @ Hot Air; read the whole thing)

"... this rollback says something about the Obama administration’s priorities. While the freedom of religion is explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution, the Roe right to an abortion is implied through emanations and penumbras — but the Obama administration appears more concerned with the latter than the former."

Don't Peek Behind the Curtain

Jackie Gingrich Cushman : Triple First, then Halve - Townhall.com

The Obama administration’s economists proved this week that they are mathematical wizards by determining that -- to end up with a higher number and claim it has been halved -- it first has to be tripled.

Read it all.

Andrew Breitbart sums up 'The Speech'

Washington Times - BREITBART: Rush to judgment: A media hopelessly divided

(btw, 'The Speech' airs again @ 9pm ET tonight!)

Here We Go (no pun) Again

Luxury toilet paper is more harmful to the environment than gas-guzzling cars | Mail Online

Orwell Shrugs

First we spend trillions, then we tell everyone we're "cutting the spending":

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Urging strict future restraint even as current spending soars, President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to dramatically slash the skyrocketing annual budget deficit as he started to dole out the record $787 billion economic stimulus package he signed last week."

Obama, like Pelosi before him, wants to use "pay-go" -a 'pay as you go' plan that would not spend money we don't have -like that guy did the other day.

Oh, wait, that was you Obama.

Geesh!

THIS Is What Conservatism Looks Like

Governor Jindal will be giving the response to President Obama's speech tomorrow night.

Now you see why.

This is the man to beat in 2012.

Housing, Stimulus Spending, and Suffering

There is much talk of the suffering that is going to take place with people losing their homes.

Not much talk however of those who have suffered for years -doing without extras, driving older cars, not eating out, etc.- in order to PAY their mortgages.

NOW we don't want to let people suffer who COULD NOT pay their mortgages because they don't make enough money.

For some reason THEIR suffering is intolerable.

92-95% of people ARE paying their mortgages this is not a crisis.
Obama wants to make it a crisis so he can impose the Government into our lives more.

It should not stand.

Another thought:
if, to take the low number, 92% of all homeowners ARE making their payments (at some 'suffering' cost to them), then only 8% are not.

Of this 8% we are told SOME are innocent and were deceived into getting into the mess they now find themselves.

What percentage of total homeowners is that group?

What is the possibility that one of THOSE homes is in YOUR neighborhood (let alone next door to you)?

Yet this is the argument for why we MUST do this.

If a foreclosed home is next to yours, yes your value may go down (were you planning on moving this year?).

However, someone will buy that foreclosed home eventually and all will be even again.

We need a long-term view here.

"Temporary"?

As I listen to the News shows today I noticed a trend in the defenders of Obama's "stimulus" package.

Many (all?) kept using the word "temporary" to describe the programs that some have a problem with.

My question: when was the last time a Government Program was 'temporary'?

btw, Social Security was supposed to be a 'temporary' fix.

Obama's new BFF

Charlie Crist on Meet The Press today was quite the Obama supporter.

Obama should make HIM the Press Secretary, he certainly makes a better defense for the Admistration than Robert Gibbs.

Beware!

'This is not the Bill Richardson I knew'

Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary

bump, bump, bump
another one 'neath the bus
bump, bump, bump
another one 'neath the bus
and another one down, and another one down
another one 'neath the bus

2009 is going to be very interesting
maybe even funny (in a tragic way of course)

Man accused of racial harassment for reading a book

Video - Political Correctness Vs. Freedom Of Thought : Founding Bloggers

This hardly seems possible in the United States of America, but here it is.

Watch the video and be aware of what is happening in the area of Political Correctness.

Someone needs a cigarette

Obama bristles as the press bubble closes in

Can You Be Impeached Before You Are Sworn In?

Political Punch: "Asked what contact he'd had with the governor's office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said 'I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening.'

But on November 23, 2008, his senior adviser David Axelrod appeared on Fox News Chicago and said something quite different."

Video of Axelrod:

Shouldn't Environmentalists Want the Auto Industry to Fail?

About this 'bail-out' talk on Capitol Hill, wouldn't the U.S. be better off without automobiles?

Haven't we been told for years and years that the automobile is the worst thing to happen to the environment?

Why aren't the eco-friendly, green Congressmen not fighting to avoid a bail-out of the auto industry and thus save the Planet?

Write your Congressmen now and demand that the Earth be saved -NO BAIL-OUT!

Ahhh, Optimism

Obama: Economy to get worse before it improves:
'The days of just pork coming out of Congress as a strategy those days are over,' he added."

Yeah, what he doesn't say is that now all the pork will becoming from the White House (see below):

'Obama unveils 21st Century New Deal'

A Little Stocking Stuffer for Your Christmas

Louisiana voters oust indicted Rep. Jefferson

Happily, Louisiana did not send this crook back to Congress

A Forehadowing of Election 2012

Goodbye turkeys!

Do you now or have you ever owned a gun?

Obama's appointees quizzed on guns

Seems odd and kinda creepy

One submitter:

'no, but I tried to blow up the Pentagon once..'

It Gets Worse: Jamie Gorelick for Attorney General

The New Team - Jamie Gorelick
Forget the unfortunate name-pun, this woman is as dangerous as it gets for the job of Attorney General of the United States.

She was on the Vice-Chairwoman on the board of Fannie Mae as its troubles were being conceived and grown.

She was principal in creating the wall between intellegence agencies that allowed terrorists to slip through the cracks and attack this country on 9/11.

She defended Duke University against charges brought by the Lacrosse Team players who were wrongfully accused of rape.

This is a bad and dangerous choice for our Country.

Perhaps it is a decoy, but probably is some sort of reward for her liberal devotion.

Good Grief!

Planning under way for Obama holiday

Really!?

As Mark Hemingway says: "Let's just go ahead and start clearing space on Rushmore too?"

(h/t Mark Hemingway)

Now I Know What That Dress Reminds Me of

It came to me yesterday:
A Black Widow Spider
(I don't read anything into that, but the coloring and pattern are striking)