"Abortion IS healthcare!" -- Your Abortion Industry at work

Hat tip: Jim Fox

More pictures fron the "One Nation" event

From Doug Ross@Journal, via Fred Gregory.









Gives new meaning to the phrase "Take out the trash", doesn't it?

At the One Nation event: "Who are the Moonbats?"

Economic Fish Stories

Michael J. Boskin:

"President Obama says 'every economist who's looked at it says that the Recovery Act has done its job'—i.e., the stimulus bill has turned the economy around. That's nonsense.

Opinions differ widely and many leading economists believe that its impact has been small. Why? The expectation of future spending and future tax hikes to pay for the stimulus and Mr. Obama's vast expansion of government are offsetting the direct short-run expansionary effect. That is standard in all macroeconomic theories.

So, as I and others warned in 2008, the permanent government expansion and higher tax rate agenda is a classic example of what not to do during bad economic times. Worse yet, all the subsidies, bailouts, regulations and mandates are forcing noncommercial decisions on the economy, which now awaits literally thousands of new diktats as a result of things like ObamaCare and the financial reform bill. The uncertainty is impeding investment and hiring."

More economic fish stories are found here and here

As well we know, that particular blog, and many of its commentators (some of whom actually profess "expertise" in the subject) are routinely at the top of the clueless list on the general subject of the economy, just like their big brother hero.

Pelosi: "Unemployment benefits create jobs"

I kid you not....



Hat tip: The Blogging Prof, who goes on to say

"By Pelosi's logic, we should all quit our jobs and become unemployed artists and musicians, because you know - that would be awesome for the economy. This woman isn't qualified to sit on the local school board. She is an absolute and utter idiot and is 3rd in line for the Presidency.We are truly living in a kakistocracy where the least qualified among us are running the show."

"You not only have a constitutional right for abortion, but you have a God-given right.”

Unbelievable!

Red State has details, and asks:

".....where, exactly, does this guy get his information that there’s a 'God-given' right to an abortion? It certainly isn’t in the Bible. It isn’t in any recognized religious tradition I’ve ever heard of (and I am at least relatively well-versed on this subject). Apparently, this 'minister' Veazy feels that he has the plenary power to declare what God-given rights are, based on whatever he feels politically at the moment. In this case, he has declared, based on his (self-professed) ultimate authority to speak on behalf of God Almighty, that God has given women an inherent right to kill children growing in their wombs."

Regarding the Van Jones "truther" news

Byron York marvels at the lack of a Tanked Media feeding frenzy.

Excerpt:

"If you were to receive all your news from any one of these outlets, or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving President Obama's Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, your response would be, 'Huh?'"

Gosh, Byron.

As Instapundit suggests, it's not like Jones said "Macaca", or something.

At any rate, WaPo's too interested in detroying Bob McDonnell to care.

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Obama's "green czar" exposed as a Truther

The Obamanation looney tooners keep on popping up, don't they?

Even worse, the partisan hack creep/clown and his administration enablers initially denied it.

Excerpt:

"It looks like the well-oiled Axelrodian machine in the White House forgot about Google when they released their statement.

Bummer."

Here's Krauthammer on the subject:

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Will they be dumb enough to "Wellstone" Ted Kennedy's memorial?

I'd say the odds are close to even that the "regressives" haven't learned their lesson from the backlash from the over-the-top pep rally the Paul Wellstone memorial turned out to be in 2002.

Captain Ed weighs in.

"At least thus far, nothing proposed by the Kennedy family or by Democrats comes close to matching the crass spectacle of the Wellstone memorial. The 'do it for Teddy' meme is practically expected by voters, which is why it won’t have much effect; it’s too obvious a manipulation to work on anyone but the true believers, where it won’t count anyway. The next election is not a few days away but fourteen months. Even if speakers get out of hand at the service, which Democrats will probably work hard to prevent, the impact will have dissipated in a fortnight.

A 'Wellstone effect' is probably nothing more than wishful thinking, but it’s equaled by the hope of a 'Kennedy effect' on ObamaCare. Unless Democrats get very, very stupid about it, the memorial will have little impact on anyone except the mourners — which is exactly how it should be."

Let's hope the Kennedy family makes it clear (to the Teleprompter-in-Chief and fellow Usual Suspects alike) that there will be no circus atmosphere permitted at the funeral, nor will it be sanctioned at any other organized memorial any where else.

That sort of thing should be left to the shameless hacks of the Tank Media and their looney toon allies in the blahgosphere.

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Today's "Oh, but that was different" flashback

Let's go back to the events of 1-20-2005, shall we?


Excerpts:

-- “Us Democrats are going to get up in arms...we’ll have to come out and do what we have to do in the spirit of revolution. We’ll have to come out and kill somebody, I guess.”

-- One sign had a double-digit number of swastikas: large swastikas with President Bush’s face superimposed and smaller ones replacing the letter “s” in the president’s surname

-- A number of “Buck Fush” signs and stickers, which shouldn’t need explaining to the dyslexic

-- “Bush=Death”

-- “Karl Rove is a Nazi, and so is Bush”

Finally, from the blogger himself:

"Next time you see a media report that unfairly paints town hall protesters as extremists, send this page to the editor, the ombudsman, or whatever contact you can find. Show them this documentation and ask them where all their outrage was when the target was a Republican president, not a Democrat."

(Hat tip: Instapundit)

But to hear the "regressives" tell it, all this sort of thing only started on 1-20-2009.

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It's official: 'Global Warming' is a religon

So says a British judge.

But we knew it was a religion already, didn't we?

Excerpt:

"The judge ruled that Nicholson’s extreme green views fit the definition of 'a philosophical belief under the Employment Equality (Religion and Belief) Regulations, 2003.” So strong were these “beliefs,' that they “put him at odds with other senior executives within the firm.” The 41-year-old told the employment tribunal that, as head of sustainability at Grainger plc, Britain's largest residential property investment company, he constantly tangled with fellow-executives over the company’s environmental policies and corporate social responsibility."

And:

"What next, Earth Day declared a religious holiday, tax-exempt status extended to recycling plants, or defacing effigies of Al Gore prosecuted as a hate crime? Not likely.

On the other hand, greenies scoffed when Michael Crichton first called environmentalism “one of the most powerful religions in the Western World” over five years ago, insisting that “settled science” was on their side. Since then it’s become increasingly evident that alarmists’ warming beliefs are based not on reason or evidence, but a trusting acceptance in the absence of either. They outright refuse to discuss it, debate it, or abide those daring to question it.

Antitheist Sam Harris once wrote:

“The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.”

If British carbo-chondriacs now choose to capitulate which better exemplifies their position in an effort to exploit victims’ status, we can only hope their American counterparts soon follow their lead.

It’d be well worth a few silly law-suits to establish precedent necessary to keep this nonsense out of our public schools on those very same grounds.

And that’s just the tip of the expanding iceberg."

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Dem Echobloggers Klein, Yglesias: 'Our health care plan will save money'

Mickey Kaus says it's like the Tiresome Twosome are saying that the Dem plan means "not providing" treatments that are unproven or too expensive--when "a person's life, or health, is not worth the price."

Noteworthy:

"Now, I understand that President Obama has chosen to sell his health care plan in the current budget as a way to control costs. How else to even colorably bill it as a policy response to the immediate economic crisis? That it won't control costs seemed, initially, to be merely disingenuous--and what's a little deception if that's what it takes to get a good universal health care law passed? But on second thought, Obama's strategy isn't just disingenuous. In the not-so-long run it's ineffective, a political loser. "

...and:

"But now, through a heroic, concerted effort at self-congratulatory Obamaist groupthink, the Dems are about to cast the government in the cost-cutting, treatment denying role and put themselves on the side of the heartless bureaucratic bean counters."

Kudos to Kaus, who has the academic and intellectual integrity to actually point out Dem/Lefty/"Progressive" nonsense on a regular basis. Not too many libs (including most of our locals) possess that quality.

Sam has more at the Spag report.

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ObamaSpeak: The phrase 'global war on terror' is now inoperative

"This Administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror' [GWOT].

Please use 'Overseas Contingency Operation.'"

--email from Dave Riedel of the Office of Security Review(via Patriot Post US)

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Obama, on bankrupting our coal industry

"You will obey!"

Key point:

"If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted"

And, of course, we get the standard response that Obama was "quoted out of contxt" from the campaign.

May God save our nation from this pending disaster!

Inciting Civil War

It's Dem/Lefty/"Regressive" "Progressive" rocket scientists like Erica Jong who will bear the blame.


"If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets."

You can't make stuff like this up, folks.

Somewhere in Chicago, Bill Ayers and spouse are enjoying the crap out of this.

Poisoning the well: 'A McCain win can only be explained by Racism'

A statement like this from a Dem operative is why I think a McCain victory is quite possible.

Otherwise, we wouldn't see some partisan hack like Susan Estrich play the Racism Card at this late stage of the campaign.

Noteworthy:

"How could one be more disingenuous than to say that hopefully we'll think better of each other on Tuesday, but if my guy loses it's because of racist liars?"

Keeping Hate Alive: The Dem/Lefty/'Progressive' Way

"The sad reality is that the political left needs racism. They need it as both an issue and a weapon to discredit those who disagree with them.

They need to keep hate alive."
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Noteworthy:

"Joining the Kansas City Star writer in his quest to keep the race issue alive, it pains me to say, is a hero of the Civil Rights movement, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA). The twenty-year veteran of the House of Representatives earlier this month had the audacity to compare John McCain to segregationist Gov. George Wallace.

'Senator McCain and Governor Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse,' Lewis said in a statement.

'George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights,' Lewis added. 'Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.'

What specifically did John McCain or Sarah Palin do to deserve being compared to an icon of segregation?

Lewis was right when he said that Wallace 'created the climate and the conditions' that led to the murder of four children in a church bombing. Can any fair-minded person legitimately argue that McCain or Palin has said anything remotely as horrific as Wallace did in his career? No."

...and:

"Question and criticize at your own risk.

That is the new motto of the Democratic Party as well as the Progressive movement in the United States. Expect to be labeled a racist, sexist, homophobe, fascist or any term that means hate, if you question or disagree with their ideas".

We're already used to that sort of thing from them.....

An Obama victory could well mark the Point of No Return for our nation

Mark Steyn tells us about it in his always distinctive way:

"Across the electric wires, the hum is ceaseless: Give it up, loser. Don’t go down with the ship when it’s swept away by the Obama tsunami. According to newspaper reports, polls show that most people believe newspaper reports claiming that most people believe polls showing that most people have read newspaper reports agreeing that polls show he’s going to win.

In the words of Publishers’ Clearing House, he may already have won! The battleground states have all turned blue, the reddest of red states are rapidly purpling. Don’t you know, little fool? You never can win. Use your mentality, wake up to reality. Why be the last right-wing pundit to sign up with Small-Government Conservatives For The Liberal Supermajority? We still need pages for the coronation, and there’s a pair of velvet knickerbockers with your name on it."

....and:

"Peggy Noonan thinks a President Obama will be like the dog who chases the car and finally catches it: Now what? I think Obama will be content to be King Barack the Benign, Spreader of Wealth and Healer of Planets. His rise is, in many ways, testament to the persistence of the monarchical urge even in a two-century old republic. So the “Now what?” questions will be answered by others, beginning with the liberal supermajority in Congress. And as he has done all his life he will take the path of least resistance. An Obama Administration will pitch America toward EU domestic policy and UN foreign policy. Thomas Sowell is right: It would be a “point of no return”, the most explicit repudiation of the animating principles of America. For a vigilant republic of limited government and self-reliant citizens, it would be a Declaration of Dependence."

Regarding the inevitability of Obama in his role of official media President-designate, Stephen Warshowsky begs to differ with the Tank Media/Dem/Lefty/"Progressive"Consensus on Political Inevitability.

Noteworthy:

"The point is simple: Don't believe the Obama hype coming out of the mainstream media. If the media were truly objective and unbiased, they would be covering the race much differently. Instead of trying to browbeat the country into voting for Obama, they would be analyzing the issues and factors that favor and disfavor both candidates. Instead of focusing on college students and intellectuals, they would be focusing on working-class and middle-class voters, especially 'Hillary Democrats.' These voters may very well determine the election. Yet this huge story is being ignored by the MSM.

Furthermore, the media would not so consistently confuse intensity of support for breadth of support. Granted, Barack Obama's supporters tend to be more enthusiastic about their candidate than John McCain's supporters are about him. Leftists are always looking for their earthly messiah. But this does not mean that Obama's supporters, come election day, will outnumber McCain's. Whether in support of McCain or in opposition to Obama, I predict these voters will go to the polls. Contrary to the wishful thinking of Democratic pundits, they are not staying home. These voters may be unexcited, but they are not apathetic. And 51% of 'unexcited' voters will defeat 49% of even the most 'inspired' voters. Every time."

Obama Attack Droid Road Rage

Sister Toldjah shares a story which is being seen in increasing numbers over the course of this election cycle.

Excerpt:

"In addition to a McCain-Palin sticker, I have an anti-Obama sticker on my bumper. It’s not ugly or nasty. It just reads “NOBAMA.” Charlotte is a liberal city, so you see more than your fair share of pro-Obama bumper stickers here, and I wanted to make it known to anyone who drives behind me or around me that I am most definitely not part of that camp. I’m sure there are people who get a little miffed when they see my stickers, as I do when I see theirs - but generally I look at the sticker, think “you’re making the wrong choice” and move on from it, not giving it another thought.

Last week, I was about a mile and a half away from my work and I was at a stoplight in the middle of a busy intersection. Two guys in an older model car pulled up behind mine. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw the guy on the driver’s side raise his hands up in one of those “in your face” gestures and saw him mouth the name “Obama” two or three times with his hands in the air, almost like he was chanting. The light then turned green, and I proceeded to go forward, and the car behind me started tailing me. I mean, they were so close to my car that I could barely see any of the hood of their car. I was actually going just a little over the speed limit and slowed down a bit, trying to get them to back off but they got as close as they could get to my car without actually hitting it. Had I hit the breaks hard, they would have rammed the back of my car. This went on for about a mile or so before they made a sharp right turn onto a side street, tires squealing. I know both of those jerks were trying to intimidate me over my beliefs and it shook me up a bit - the audacity of it, mainly - but I shrugged it off as the day went on, thinking it was probably a one time thing.

This morning as I started out on my route to work, I was in one of two left turn lanes on one of the main streets here in Charlotte, and noticed a car pass by me in the other left lane that had an Obama-Biden bumper sticker. I looked away as I made my left turn, thinking “wrong choice, lady.” But I went on about my business and wasn’t going to think anything else of it, until the woman with the Obama sticker on her car started driving erratically and swerving back and forth from in front of me to the lane beside me. I had no idea why she was doing this at first, because there was no one in front of either of us and she could have easily gotten in her own lane and stayed there if she wanted to get ahead of me, but she didn’t. Whenever I would make an attempt to gain some speed she treated it as though I was trying to pass her (I wasn’t), and she’d speed up just a little. Then she’d dart in front of me again. The last time she darted in front of me she an I both ended up having to pull over into another lane as there was a police vehicle on the road that had stopped a car for whatever reason.

When she pulled back into the right lane to eventually make a right turn, I was in the left lane preparing to continue to go straight ahead. Do you know what this witch did to me? I looked over at her as many people will do to drivers who behave stupidly on the road, and as I was turning towards her, she rolled her window down, gave me a look that suggested she wanted to punch me in the mouth, and flipped me off. I know this was another attempt at political intimidation, because I had done nothing to provoke this. I never tried to race her, never tried to get in front of her, nothing. I minded my own business, but because I don’t support Barack Obama, I was targeted by a coward who probably would not have done that to me had we been standing in the same line to vote, because she wouldn’t be able to drive quickly away after making her cheap, nasty political attack.

My response to her was to flip her off in return, and utter a few choice words that I normally would never say. Luckily for her (and probably for me as well) my power window on my passenger side stopped working last week, so I couldn’t return the favor by rolling my window down so she could hear the choice words that came out of my mouth. She clearly wanted me to hear her but all I could see was the middle finger, and the look like she wanted to knock me out. She ended up turning right and I drove on straight on my route to work."

Stories like these are rampant. Mrs. Bubba has several to share from her experiences right here in Greensboro.

But as we all know, all these incidents are a result of the "hate" engendered from the McCain/Palin rhetoric, right? And all these Obamabots were "just exercising their free speech rights", don't you know?

A conversation with an Obamabot campaign phone solicitor

Read about all the wondrous marvels President Messiah will give all of us for free.

Noteworthy:

"I don't know which is scarier: that the young man knew so little about the policies of the candidate for whom he had volunteered to work, that the young man's supervisor apparently knew little more, or that the talking heads say that young people like him could determine this election."