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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Stimulus payments reward a loyal Democrat constituency
Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president's stimulus plan -- including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago.

The woman's son, 83-year-old James Hagner, said he got the surprise when he checked his mailbox late last week. "It shocked me and I laughed all at the same time," Hagner said. "I don't even expect to get one my own self, and I get one for my mother for 43 years ago?"

His mother, Rose, died on Memorial Day in 1967.
I would not be surprised if she's voted straight ticket in every election since.
Posted by: Mike || 05/12/2009 11:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Social Security representatives said there is a good explanation. Of the about 52 million checks that have been mailed out, about 10,000 of those have been sent to people who are deceased.

Geez, that's only two and a half million wasted. Damn fine job for a guvmint bureaucracy. Take a bow, Social Security Administration...

The agency blames the error on the strict mid-June deadline of mailing out all of the checks, which didn't leave officials much time to clean up all of their records.

Yeah, she's only been dead since 1967. Take your time, do it right...

Agents ask that people return the check if they receive it.

Oh, yew betcha...
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/12/2009 14:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Rose then promptly donated $250 to the Committee to Reelect President Obama (CReePO).
Posted by: ed || 05/12/2009 15:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Anybody check to see if ACORN had her registered to vote last fall?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/12/2009 16:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Welcome to America - Chicago Style.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/12/2009 20:27 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Obama Team Seeks New Terminology for Global Warming
May I suggest "Bullshit," Mr. I Won?
Nah, too scientific ...
Seeking to bolster public support for climate legislation, the Obama administration is consulting pollsters who advocate avoiding phrases such as "cap-and-trade" and "global warming."
Here's a novel idea: don't avoid just the phrases, avoid the whole damn thing.
On Monday, the White House Council on Environmental Quality was scheduled to meet with Robert Perkowitz, president of ecoAmerica, a Washington-based nonprofit that uses "psychographic research" to "shift personal and civic choices of environmentally agnostic Americans fool the taxpaying idiots," according to its Web site.

"We're trying to give them phrases that work put lipstick on a polar bear," Mr. Perkowitz said in an interview. He said that in a survey of some 2,000 Americans conducted by his group in March and April, less than half of the respondents said they would support a "cap-and-trade" policy, and that only 24% said they knew what the phrase means. "If you call it 'clean energy dividend'...almost anything other than 'cap and trade,' you'll get people responding a lot more favorably fool a lot more of the rubes," he said.
In other words, lie to the American public in order to lull fool them into going along with Bambi's communist programs. Nice. Just remember, Mr. Perkowitz, when the Won doesn't need you anymore, you'll be one of the first to be shot disposed of. Enjoy it while you can.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/12/2009 13:29 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, mods - preview isn't working for me & I forgot to highlight the last line about the link.

Also, any chance of inserting an appropriate graphic? I didn't want to put one in without preview.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/12/2009 13:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Stupidity by any other name is.....still just as stupid.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/12/2009 14:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey, Bob. How about calling it "You Pay Lots More For a Problem That Probably Doesn't Exist And Keep Bob Perkowitz In His Well Paying Phony Baloney Job"?
No? Too long?
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/12/2009 14:28 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/12/2009 14:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Ignorance is Strength.
Posted by: ed || 05/12/2009 15:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Fiddle with the delivery line until it works.

Hitler was a master of that.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/12/2009 15:15 Comments || Top||

#7  How about the renaming Global Warming

"Omnificent Balderdash Atmospheric Molecular Acceleration"

OBAMA for short
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/12/2009 15:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, "Global Warming" is half man, half bear and half pig.

So let's call it Manbearpig!
Posted by: Spike Floluns3261 || 05/12/2009 17:43 Comments || Top||

#9  Call it was it is "Snakeoil"
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/12/2009 19:05 Comments || Top||

#10  How about "BULLSHIT"?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/12/2009 20:39 Comments || Top||

#11  ION WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC USA PLANS TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR-POWERED, HIGH-STRATOSPHERE ORBITING AIRSHIP [dirigible] THAT CAN STAY ALOFT FOR 10 YEARS.

IOW, IMO TESLA = TESLAN POWER GENER TECHNOLOGY, besides of course USDOD, GMD SBD Applications.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/12/2009 22:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama Disillusionment Watch: donor turns on the president over the Air Farce 1 scandal
A wealthy Obama donor who turned on the president is launching an attack on Obama over the Air Force One flyover screw-up, linking it to his big spending policies, an assault that may involve radio and TV ads in a preview of what to expect in the 2010 midterm elections.

The donor, businessman Fred Tausch of New Hampshire, announced in February he’d be sinking some $100,000 into assaults on Obama. Now he’s adding the flyover snafu to his list of grievances, tying it to “wasteful spending” in a direct mail piece sent out to his state’s voters.

Image available at the link.
Posted by: Mike || 05/12/2009 15:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A nice chink in Bambi's armor. Much luck to Mr. Tausch. Any chance others will follow?

One question, Mr. Tausch: On what planet did you, as a businessman, ever think Bambi would be good for you and your business?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/12/2009 15:32 Comments || Top||

#2  He lives in New Hampshire, Barbara. Likely he would have been shunned had he admitted to voting for the other candidate.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2009 15:56 Comments || Top||

#3  What does a colonoscopy performed by the IRS feel like?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 05/12/2009 15:59 Comments || Top||

#4  The article says he is "being talked about" as a Republican Senate candidate for New Hampshire. So why is he giving money- and how much- to the Democrats in '08 and running against them in'10?
Posted by: Grunter || 05/12/2009 16:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Any chance others will follow?

Yep pretty high chance come October when all those fiscal years start closing. Obambi was a fad ticket, hes screwing up business all over the place and all those big donors are looking at their own wealth now being on the line for being "re-apportioned" by a "neutral party" (read we take your money and give to people who we can buy votes from). THAT alone will not go over well and you will start to see a lot of major funding going into slapping this administration hard by companies and the wealthy just deciding to simply not work with the administration or in the case of Tausch for example actively campaign against it.
Posted by: Valentine || 05/12/2009 19:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama Disillusionment Watch

I suspect that you might need to set up a new section for keeping track of this.

I'm just wondering how long it will take Andrew Sullivan to realize that Bambi is going to provide far more support to Taliban and Islamist fundies than he will Andy's pet projects.
Posted by: Jumbo Slinerong5015 || 05/12/2009 22:12 Comments || Top||


Pelosi: Torture protest improper in '03
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said Monday.
It only became proper to protest when there was a political opening, and there was no opening to protest the interrogation of terrorists in '03.
The Pelosi camp’s version of events is intended to answer two key questions posed by her critics: When, precisely, did she first learn about waterboarding? And why didn’t she do more to stop it?
Because she agreed with it ...
Pelosi has disputed a CIA document, released last week, that shows she was briefed in September 2002 on the “particular” interrogation techniques the United States had used on Al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. Pelosi has said she was told then only that the Bush administration was considering using certain techniques in the future — and that it had the legal authority to do so.

But there’s no dispute that on Feb. 4, 2003 — five months after Pelosi’s September meeting — CIA officials briefed Pelosi aide Michael Sheehy and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), then the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, on the specific techniques that had been used on Zubaydah — including waterboarding. Harman was so alarmed by what she had heard, she drafted a short letter to the CIA’s general counsel to express “profound” concerns with the tactic — going so far as to ask if waterboarding had been personally “approved by the president.”

According to the Pelosi confidant, Sheehy told Pelosi about the briefing — and later informed Pelosi, the newly elected minority leader, that Harman was drafting a protest letter. Pelosi told Sheehy to tell Harman that she agreed with the letter, the Pelosi insider said. But she did not ask to be listed as a signatory on the letter, the source said, and there is no reference to her in it.
Leave no fingerprints just in case ...
Pelosi and Harman, sometimes bitter rivals, have still not discussed the controversy since it broke three weeks ago, according to Democratic insiders.

Sheehy has not responded to several calls and e-mails seeking comment on what he told Pelosi during this period. But the Pelosi confidant — who spoke to POLITICO on the condition of anonymity — insisted that Pelosi did all that she could have done. “She felt that the appropriate response was the letter from Harman, because Jane was the one who was briefed,” said the person. Pelosi “never got briefed on it personally, and when Harman got a ‘no response’ from the CIA, there was nothing more that could be done.”

Republicans aren’t buying it. “If Nancy was so concerned about the waterboarding, why did she let someone else write the letter?” asked Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the intelligence committee. “If she was so upset, why did she let someone else raise objections?”
Bingo. Pelosi was trying to play things both ways. Typical Dhimmicrat ...
Posted by: Steve White || 05/12/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  OTOH TOPIX > OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS FAST BECOMING A STANDUP COMEDY ACT.

Ouch.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/12/2009 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Since when did Pelosi become Little Miss Manners? What an unworthy lying chump!
Posted by: whatadeal || 05/12/2009 4:15 Comments || Top||

#3  So what she's saying is...she knew, right?
Nuthin to see here, move it along. Right, Nancy baby?
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/12/2009 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Alibi of the day. Nothing more.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon || 05/12/2009 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  “…and there was a constant drumbeat coming from the Bush administration of, ‘Bad things could happen, bad things could happen.”

When in doubt…use the old ”Hypocrites defense”. Simply blame your incompetence on your critics. And it might just work. After all, it’s difficult to argue that Pelosi isn’t indeed an incompetent.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 05/12/2009 10:54 Comments || Top||

#6  The despicable power hungry wrench didn't say anything in '03 because this was still in everyone's mind and would have seen her removed from any position of responsibility had she even mumbled what she thinks she can get away with now.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/12/2009 13:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Something is either right or it's wrong, be-yotch.

Except in your case - you're always wrong.

Lying hypocritical assh*le.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/12/2009 14:11 Comments || Top||

#8  C'mon, Barbara, tell us what you really think about this.
Posted by: KBK || 05/12/2009 21:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Steny Hoyer, The Botox Bitch's #2 (after Murtha was denied) is saying any torture investigation needs to address her Majesty's knowledge of when/where/what.... cracks in the base. She's under the bus in less than a year. Bet on it
Posted by: Frank G || 05/12/2009 21:22 Comments || Top||

#10  Can't do it, KBK - this is a family site sort of. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/12/2009 21:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Obama votes "Present" regarding "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says it won't stop gays and lesbians from being dismissed from the military while the Obama administration works to repeal a decade-old policy banning openly gay people from serving in uniform.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that President Barack Obama does not plan to intervene in current cases against men and women who announce their homosexuality.

Gibbs says the president wants to do away with the "don't ask, don't tell" policy through legislation.

Gibbs says the policy does not serve the national interest and that Obama is working with lawmakers for what Gibbs calls a "durable legislative solution." He says a repeal of the policy requires "more than the snapping of one's fingers."

Critics of the policy have called on Obama to stop the dismissals now.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/12/2009 17:19 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All he has to do is tell Congress to repeal the policy. After all, it was established by Congress.
Does anybody know if an executive order can contradict a law? Could he just issue an executive order to repeal the Don't ask Don't tell law?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/12/2009 21:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Not sure, Rambler, but I doubt an executive order can repeal a law passed by Congress.

No reason that should stop O'Bambi, though. None of our other laws seem to apply to him and his minions....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/12/2009 21:46 Comments || Top||

#3  That's sort of what I meant, Barbara. I don't see why he doesn't just issue an executive order, and make it so.
Of course, those reenlistment rates that have been so high might start to tumble, but that is all part of the plan.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/12/2009 22:06 Comments || Top||

#4  This just in via Instapundit:

White House: Law only answer for gays in military
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/12/2009 23:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Heh. Bambi voting 'present' again.
Posted by: Zorba || 05/12/2009 23:43 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2009-05-12
  Pak commandos dropped into Taliban stronghold
Mon 2009-05-11
  200 Taliban killed in Swat operation
Sun 2009-05-10
  Scores dead as drone hits S. Wazoo Mehsud stronghold
Sat 2009-05-09
  1.2 million people leave Buner, Swat other areas
Fri 2009-05-08
  Gilani orders all-out war on Pak Taliban
Thu 2009-05-07
  Sufi Mohammad's son killed in Lower Dir shelling
Wed 2009-05-06
  Mashaal: Hamas wants 10 year cease-fire
Tue 2009-05-05
  Pirates captured after attacking the wrong ship
Mon 2009-05-04
  Khaled Mashaal re-elected Hamas political leader
Sun 2009-05-03
  64 civilians killed in Lanka hospital attack
Sat 2009-05-02
  60 Taliban killed in Buner offensive
Fri 2009-05-01
  Taliban hold Buner town people hostage
Thu 2009-04-30
  U.S. missile strikes kill 10 in South Waziristan
Wed 2009-04-29
  70 militants killed in Pak operation
Tue 2009-04-28
  TNSM suspends talks with govt

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