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Oct

6

DCCC: Win Dinner With Al & Nancy

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For people who are always warning America about the dangers of obesity, the Democratic Party sure does try to get everybody to eat dinner with them a lot, don’t they?

Here are the Democrats’ latest “win dinner with” participants:

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is offering voters a chance to win a dinner with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and former Vice President Al Gore.

In a fundraising email, Pelosi encourages supporters to enter the contest where the winner is flown out to San Francisco for a dinner with Gore and the minority leader on October 10th.
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“Our special dinner with former Vice President Gore comes as House Republicans are continuing to push their radical, anti-environment agenda,” Pelosi continues in the email.

In what depraved alternate universe is watching Al Gore hork down a rack of lamb with a carafe-of-gravy chaser while listening to Nancy Pelosi prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that she was the inspiration for the invention of the straight-jacket considered a “prize”?

Pelosi doesn’t say if the anti-greenhouse gas crusader Gore will send his private jet to pick up the winner. Fingers crossed!

Oct

6

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Irony Alert: ‘The Money is Really Going to Start Rolling in Now’

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The irony was inevitable. The “Occupy Wall Street” movement is getting greedy:

The youth behind the original movement are organized into factions or committees, including legal, medical, and finance, and they are pulling away from association with the union protest movement now. The people behind the original movement recognize that their strength is in their youth, and we found little evidence to confirm reports that they’re not organized.

They now have $40,000 in the bank, in an account at Amalgamated Bank.

“At first, Victoria [Sobel, one of the movement's unofficial leaders] was sleeping with $10,000 in the park,” says Darrell Prince, who works on the finance team. He and others on the team wear a gold “$” sign as an elbow patch to identify themselves.

“We’ve collected $40,000 from donations and buckets on the street,” Prince says, and “the money is really going to start rolling in now.”

The movement is certainly trying to earn their place on Wall Street, don’t you think? How long before Occupy Wall Street incorporates and has an IPO? No wonder Michael Moore likes this them so much.

They might soon have to admit that they can’t do battle with rich people without accumulating some wealth — but by then it’ll be too late — they’ll have become what they hate.

Hey, there’s a song in there somewhere.

Oct

6

The Cost of a FLOTUS Safari with ‘Senior Staff’

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I understand the perks that come with the gig and all that surrounds it, but sometimes you have an “oh pah-leez” point, and this is it:

How much does it cost taxpayers to fly First Lady Michelle Obama, her two daughters and her mother, a niece and a nephew, a hairstylist and makeup artists to South Africa and Botswana to give a few speeches, meet Nelson Mandela, and enjoy a safari on a private game preserve?

Nearly half a million dollars, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) concerning Obama’s June 21-27 journey.

Judicial Watch said the U.S. Air Force provided a C-32 – a Boeing 757 modified by the military for the purpose of flying big-wigs around the world – to fly the First Lady and her entourage to and from Africa, at a cost of $424,142. Another $928.44 was listed as the cost of providing 192 meals for the 21 people who made the trip
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The documents made public by Judicial Watch do not include the total of all costs for the First Lady’s trip, such as expenses for security, transportation on the ground and so forth. For more information, go here.

The best part:

The Obama daughters were listed on the manifest as “senior staff.”

Let me guess — the government must be reimbursed for children’s travel but taxpayers get to eat the cost of “staff.” Am I getting warm?

Actually it probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to give the daughters a chance at actually being senior staff in the administration — why not? It’s not like they could screw things up any more than the current staff has.

It would be a lot easier to look the other way at this stuff if it didn’t come from the wife of the president who called on Americans to “sacrifice.” In fairness though, the First Lady did say that “someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”

Oct

5

Palin’s Out

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For a while there it was so much fun to think about:

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I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to see her get in, if for no other reason than to take the race to a different level, but I agree that she might have more sway offering her opinion and fundraising for others from the sidelines than from within the game.

Here’s Palin’s announcement by way of the Mark Levin Show:

After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

My decision is based upon a review of what common sense Conservatives and Independents have accomplished, especially over the last year. I believe that at this time I can be more effective in a decisive role to help elect other true public servants to office – from the nation’s governors to Congressional seats and the Presidency. We need to continue to actively and aggressively help those who will stop the “fundamental transformation” of our nation and instead seek the restoration of our greatness, our goodness and our constitutional republic based on the rule of law.

From the bottom of my heart I thank those who have supported me and defended my record throughout the years, and encouraged me to run for President. Know that by working together we can bring this country back – and as I’ve always said, one doesn’t need a title to help do it.

I will continue driving the discussion for freedom and free markets, including in the race for President where our candidates must embrace immediate action toward energy independence through domestic resource developments of conventional energy sources, along with renewables. We must reduce tax burdens and onerous regulations that kill American industry, and our candidates must always push to minimize government to strengthen the economy and allow the private sector to create jobs.

Those will be our priorities so Americans can be confident that a smaller, smarter government that is truly of the people, by the people, and for the people can better serve this most exceptional nation.

In the coming weeks I will help coordinate strategies to assist in replacing the President, re-taking the Senate, and maintaining the House.

Thank you again for all your support. Let’s unite to restore this country!

God bless America.

– Sarah Palin

As far as the GOP race goes, this is probably fairly good news to Herman Cain… and maybe Rick Perry.

Some speculated that Palin might consider a third party run, but I never thought there was any chance that Sarah would do anything to help Barack Obama in 2012 — much like Ross Perot helped elect Bill Clinton in 1992.

It’ll be interesting to see who Palin endorses — if anybody.

Oct

5

Sesame Street to Feature Muppet Ravaged by Hope & Change

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First of all, it appears that, after numerous site issues, we’re back up for the time being.

While we were down, a new Sesame Street character was announced:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight the issue of hunger struggles on an episode of “Sesame Street”, the show said in a statement on Tuesday.

Pink-faced Muppet Lily, whose family deals with food insecurity, will join Big Bird, Elmo and other favorites on a one-hour prime-time special featuring country star Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams Paisley called “Growing Hope Against Hunger,” to air Oct 9.

The new Muppet will bring awareness to the ongoing hunger struggles that families face in the United States, the show said.

“Food insecurity is a growing and difficult issue for adults to discuss, much less children,” the Paisleys said in a statement.

Producers are keeping mum about what happens during the scene where the “food insecure” muppet meets the Cookie Monster. I’ll bet it gets pretty ugly.

I’m confused. Most of what I read on the topic of nutrition consists of study after study of how obese kids are these days. Now they’re starving? (I mean “food insecure”?)

Actually, sources tell me that the poverty-stricken muppet Lily will help the White House peddle “Let’s Move” and promote taxpayer funding to eliminate so-called food deserts. It’s just the show’s way of apologizing for how the characters treated the First Lady the last time she was on:


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Related: If you get a chance, read Thomas Sowell’s The Hunger Hoax to see why Sesame Street first needs a muppet that is a welfare-state promoting sham artist.

Oct

4

Chris Christie Not Running for President

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And Ann Coulter wept while Henry Kissinger said… something nobody could understand but he seemed pretty upset about it nonetheless.

Chris Christie will not be among the 2012 GOP contenders:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has decided against entering the race for president, likely ending once and for all the GOP establishment’s hope for a new candidate in the 2012 race.

Christie has scheduled a 1 p.m. press conference in his state’s capital, where he’s expected to announce that he will not seek the presidency. Two sources said he has started informing people of his decision in advance of his Trenton press conference.

“He is not running,” said a fundraiser informed of the decision. “Mary Pat and the gov just called tier one [donor] group to say he was out.”

I’ve always loved how Christie deals with public unions and state budget issues, but outside that I don’t think he would have been “my guy” anyway. I’ve heard him say too many things that triggered my RINO radar.

He’ll probably be back in 2016 though — or sooner if the nominee considers him running-mate material.

Oct

4

What Other Briefings is Eric Holder Not Reading? Update: House GOP Calls for Special Counsel to Investigate Holder

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To get quickly up to speed on the latest on Fast & Furious:

–Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder told a congressional committee he’d only “heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”

–CBS has documents that show Holder was informed in 2010.

–Holder now says he mis-understood the question (pause for laughter) and he did know about it, just not the details.

–DOJ officials told CBS News that the gun-walking operation referenced in those memos wasn’t Fast & Furious, but a different one (there’s another one?).

–Fox News reported on a former DoJ official who knows Holder and said that he receives dozens of memos a week and “doesn’t always read them.” What a convenient dereliction of duty. What other memos do you think Holder might not be reading? Maybe something about Solyndra?

The plot thickens:


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Update: It’s on:

House Republicans are calling for a special counsel to determine whether Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself during his testimony to the House Judiciary Committee on Operation Fast and Furious, Fox News has learned.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, was sending a letter to President Obama on Tuesday arguing that Holder cannot investigate himself, and requesting the president instruct the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel.

Oct

3

Breaking: Roseanne Barr Still a Loon

Filed Under Business, Celebrity Idiots, Moonbats | 9 Comments

I’m not surprised to learn that Roseanne is still forgetting to open the garage door before starting the car:

Controversial comedienne Roseanne Barr has her own solution to the financial crisis: behead any wealthy banker making more than $100 million who won’t be reeducated.

In an interview with the RT program “Keiser Report,” Barr said if she were the president, she would bring back the guillotine as a form of justice for Wall Street’s “worst of the worst of the guilty.”

“I first would allow the guilty bankers to pay back anything over 100 million in personal wealth because I believe in a maximum wage of 100 million dollars,” she said. “If they’re unable to live on that amount then they should go to the reeducation camps, and if that doesn’t help, then be beheaded.”

I’ll get on board with that — provided people who made their bones in the entertainment industry are included, and we lower the net worth threshold to anything over, say, $50 million. What say you, Roseanne? … Roseanne?

My idea probably wouldn’t give Roseanne a moment of pause though, because she’s spent the last several years proving that she can survive just fine without a head:

Oct

3

More Stuff on Obama’s Past for the Mainstream Media to Ignore

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For much of the mainstream media, digging into Obama’s past has never been a “shovel ready job. But once again Andrew Breitbart is there to do the digging when the MSM conveniently mis-places their shovels:

New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007.

The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media’s failure to examine Obama’s extremist ties and radical roots.

Here’s one of the pictures:

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At the gathering was Panther leader Malik Shabazz, of “kill white babies” and “kill some crackers” notoriety.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Yeah, I can’t believe Reverend Wright wasn’t there too.

Just one more story you won’t see on the network news tonight.

Breitbart closes:

The mainstream media should ask Obama a few questions before they rush to his defense:

What did he and Malik Zulu Shabazz say when they conversed that day –something that Shabazz has said happened?

Did the Obama campaign play any role in having the Panthers travel to support his presidential ambitions?

Who posted the Panthers’ endorsement on the Obama campaign’s website, and at whose instructions?

Who–finally–was the Malik Shabazz who visited the White House residence on July 25, 2009?

I doubt the MSM will rush to Obama’s defense. They simply won’t mention it until it goes away.

Michelle M. has more.

Oct

1

Summary of Obama’s Weekly Address: (Altogether Now…) ‘Pass This Jobs Bill’

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With practically zero support for this sham even from within his own party, President Obama’s only hope now is a “parody of himself” stimulus:

President Obama used his weekly radio address to urge Congress “to get its act together” and pass his jobs bill.

“It’s been almost three weeks since I sent the American Jobs Act to Congress – three weeks since I sent them a bill that would put people back to work and put money in people’s pockets,” Obama said. “And now I want it back. It is time for Congress to get its act together and pass this jobs bill so I can sign it into law.”

Obama then rattled off a few self-defeating stories of economic hardship, which is an approach that makes no sense whatsoever: “The economy continues to go to hell, so here are some tales of economic woe to serve as examples of why we should be doing more of what’s undoubtedly only made things worse for these people.”

Roll the desperation: