Lie of the year

Politifact and others have awarded their “Lie of the Year” prize for 2011, and the competition is brutal.  Here’s my winner:

 

--Obama got Osama.

Of course we all know that Seal Team 6 got Osama bin Laden.  All Obama did was get out of the way and let the Seals do their job.

Come to think of it, if Obama would follow that policy in most other policy areas he might actually go down as a great president!

 

Thanksgiving

I frequently sat down to my meat with thankfulness, and admired the hand of God's providence, which had thus spread my table in the wilderness. I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side; and to consider what I enjoyed rather than what I wanted; and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts that I cannot express them; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

from Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (pub.1719)

Most prolonged recession since WW2

Almost four years into the current recession this graphic really tells the story--a true testament to the leadership of the Democrats. (Click to enlarge)

Three and a half days...

GOP debate

The Republican debate tonight clarified a few things for me.  In reverse order of how well I think they did:

1. Rick Perry is toast.  Most of the answers he gave were petty and repetetive.  If he accomplished anything it was making Romney look strong. He’s a horrible debater and I sure don’t look forward to  him going up against Obama.
2. Michelle Bachman had some good moments, but not nearly enough. Her last response was directed at the “women of America”.  Sorry… I’ve had enough divisiveness from our current president.
3. Rick Santorum is trying way too hard.  I know he’s sincere, and I love the guy, but he’s just not ready for prime time.
4. Ron Paul I would mostly love except for his foreign policy stances—some of which I even agree with!  Why do we need so many troops in Germany and Korea?  But Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and his blame America for 9/11 just eliminate him from consideration.
5. Mitt Romney, as I said, was helped immensely by Perry.  His biggest weakness—RomneyCare—would be difficult for the Dems to attack, but that does him no credit. He was strong on the counterattack against Perry and is a solid candidate.
6. Herman Cain, cheerful and colorful (no pun intended), would make a very satisfying contrast to Obama.  His 9-9-9 plan is suspect but not a bad starting point for tax reform. He really needs to put more emphasis on his resume, and not just the pizza part!
7. John Huntsman didn’t show up for the debate because Nevada, Florida, and New Hampshire are forcing the primaries so early that my already useless Texas primary is even more useless.  Good for him.  Thanks, John. (Probably won’t help much, though.)
8. Newt Gingrich.  Three months ago, when he dissed the Ryan plan, Newt was on my spit list. Right now, though, I LOVE the way he refrains from directly attacking the other candidates.  His eye is on the real problem—Obama.  I know he’s a flawed candidate and he gives the Dims a lot of easy ammunition, but if Texas had a primary that mattered, right now (and this really surprises me) Newt would get my vote.  Watching Newt debate Obama would be a treat.

Like Romney said in the first debate—Any ONE of these people would be better than Obama. 

Even Ron Paul.

Johnny's Mother looked out the window and noticed him "playing church" with their cat.

He had the cat sitting quietly and he was preaching to it. She smiled and went about her work. A while later she heard loud meowing and hissing and ran back To the open window to see Johnny baptizing the cat in a tub of water.

She called out, " Johnny, stop that! The cat is afraid of water!"

Johnny looked up at her and said, "He should have thought about that before he joined my church."

Obama's shovel-ready record

I believe in whirrled peas

Marco Rubio is good!  This video is 14 minutes long, and in the last half he responds powerfully to two questions from John Kerry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_68GjR6V6zI&feature=player_embedded

 

Debt Ceiling Quotes from Obama

During the debate to raise the debt ceiling in 2006, then-senator Barack Obama had this to say:  “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership . Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.”
He subsequently voted against raising the ceiling. As president, however, Obama has called opposing a rise in the debt ceiling as dangerous.

A 'present' from Barack

If the "Tea Party causus" can't bring themselves to vote for any increase in the debt limit, then they should just rip a page out of Obama's book.  Can you imagine if EVERY Republican voted "present" on increasing the limit?  The Dimcocrats would own the whole thing, and nothing would make it clearer why we need to put the GOP in charge of government.

Stormy Monday

This is my brother Paul singing Stormy Monday. He and Georgia were on their honeymoon cruise on the Carnival Destiny, May 15, 1999.

American Pie

This is almost 10 minutes long but the mass choreography is impressive. The people of Grand Rapids worked hard to put this together.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPjjZCO67WI&feature=player_embedded

 

The music is good, too.

God Bless America

"The trouble with quotes over the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine."
--Abraham Lincoln

NOBAMACARE at AARP

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – The AARP, the focus of an investigation by a House subcommittee in part for the role it played in passing and benefiting from President Obama’s landmark health care law, has reportedly received a waiver — making it exempt from the law.   The waiver was revealed by Let Freedom Ring, which has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Health and Human Services Department.

The AARP was one of 200 organizations that reportedly received waivers in the latest round and conservative critics of the law say that the Obama administration allies are essentially receiving political payoffs for helping push through the new law.

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Nevada (yes, Harry Reid’s state) also got a waiver. 

Newest terror plot.

TEACHER ARRESTED IN NEW YORK - A public school teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule and a calculator.

At a morning press conference, Attorney General Eric Holder said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.  

'Al-Gebra is a problem for us', the Attorney General said. 'They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values.'  They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as 'unknowns', but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'.  

When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, 'If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes.'  White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President - It is believed that another Nobel Prize will follow.

Ain't it the truth?

'Historic' deal to avoid government shutdown

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent David Espo, Ap Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON – Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic agreement late Friday night to cut about $38 billion in federal spending and avert the first federal closure in 15 years.  Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history." House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion, and won an ovation from his rank and file tea party adherents among them. "This is historic, what we've done," agreed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., the third man involved in negotiations that ratified a new era of divided government.

Golly, reading this you’d almost think the spending cuts were the Democrats' idea!

March Madness: U.S. Gov't Spent More Than Eight Times Its Monthly Revenue

You don't believe Conservatives when they warn about the fiscal disaster the country's heading toward? Maybe you'll believe Bill Clinton's former Chief of Staff.

Planned Parenthood 'Unplanned'

Rubicon: A River In Wisconsin

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 

Posted 02/24/2011 06:05 PM ET

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The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic proportions and, remarkably, our muddled, gridlocked, allegedly broken politics have yielded singular clarity.

At the federal level, President Obama's budget makes clear that Democrats are determined to do nothing about the debt crisis, while House Republicans have announced that beyond their proposed cuts in discretionary spending, their April budget will actually propose real entitlement reform.

Simultaneously, in Wisconsin and other states, Republican governors are taking on unsustainable, fiscally ruinous pension and health care obligations, while Democrats are full-throated in support of the public-employee unions crying, "Hell no."

A choice, not an echo: Democrats desperately defending the status quo; Republicans charging the barricades.   [more]

Dog day afternoon...

This is Jeff Hammer, brother to my son-in-law Rick.

What's wrong with this video?

Why is it funny?
It makes me want to laugh. And cry.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- Henry Fielding