Justice Ginsburg said what?

 

Wow! Quite the ultra-radical statement

Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.

Not sure if she is endorsing the population control aspect of it or not frankly. But it is worth sharing.

Yet Another DarcPrynce Parody Song

Stimulus? No, how about economic suckage?

How IS that wonderful cure-all stimulus working out? It ain’t!

Lots of economic gloom in the news today, which must why President Obama is so happy that the Democratic stimulus plan has “done its job“:

RS McCain suspects that this is well, cleverly orchestrated! Sounds about right to me. As does the idea that the GOP could use some, ah, stimulating! And a history lesson on the CONSTITUTION!

Congressional Literacy Project

Theo Spark liked my idea of not voting for politicians who vote yes on bills they do not read. Doug Ross approves as well The Congressional Literacy Project will help teach these miscreant members of Congress that reading is important, by putting them out of office, thus giving them more time to master the skill of reading!

World’s UGLIEST dog crowned!

This poor pooch is ugly, and in fact, this photo of him might actually disturb small children, so here is your fair warning to look away if you have a weak stomach.

Trust me

This is NOT pretty

Last chance to not look

Are you sure?

OK

One

Final

Warning

Here ya go

NOSTRILSAURUS REX!

Caption contest fun!

Hmmm, I wonder what Obama is thinking? HMMMM

Damn I wish Michelle had that ass

Have you checked TrogloPundit lately?

That wacky Lance Burri has been a busy badger. He is, as I type this

Waiting for Liberal outrage! 

Looking for Michael Jackson 

And also mourning Joyce DeWitt’s sobriety!

I always thought Janet was way hotter than Chrissy too Lance! Oh, and by the way, everyone knows Michael Jackson can be seen in tree stumps!

Want to reduce the cost of health care?

Sure, exercise, eat better, reduce your stress, and kick a trial lawyer in the nuts!

We have unnecessarily large awards to aggrieved patients, crushing insurance costs to doctors to cover malpractice, a situation where defensive medicine drives up costs, and an entire industry of lawyers whose job it is, apparently, to rape the system and cause it to be burdensome for all of us. On top of that, we have a national party in the Democrats assisting these very destructive lawyers to do just that. This is a part of our medical system that truly needs reform. We can start by getting Democrats to stop doing everything they can to bend over backwards for the John Edwards’ of this world — ambulance chasers extraordinaire. Democrats are the reason this has gotten so bad. And imagine, we are trusting to Democrats to “fix” what they, themselves broke with the greedy assistance of the trial lawyers.

 

Last month, I wondered aloud if Obama was going to cut these medical vultures off at the knees? I asked if Obamacare would mean that medical malpractice law will take a hit?

OK, maybe kicking them in the nuts would not help, but it would be enjoyable!

Democrats just love them some taxes!

Show me a Democrat and I will show you a greedy for your hard earned tax dollars big taxing Liberal. The question is not if Democrats love to tax us, the question is which kind of tax IS their favorite?

I cannot answer such a question, but, Wizbang does have some insight on a new kind of tax Democrats are looking at

The House Ways and Means Committee says it is looking at surtax on wealthy taxpayers as the primary source of funding ObamaCare:

As discussed in the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, the surtax would apply to individuals with adjusted gross income of more than $200,000 and couples over $250,000, according to officials involved in the discussion. Most spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private. Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., a member of the panel, said the panel is looking at a surtax around 3.5 percent.

In addition, key lawmakers are expected to call for a tax or fee equal to a percentage of a worker’s salary on employers who do not offer health benefits.

Ah, a surtax is it? But only on those making more than $250,000 per year, you know, the “rich”. Such a tax would, it should be noted, drive up the rate of taxation on those “rich” people to MORE THAN 40%! Remember that Obama wants to roll back those evil Bush tax cuts, that would raise the rate to almost 40%. Who thinks that will be good for the hurting economy? What kind of person thinks a government taking more than 40% of anyone’s income is fair? A Marxist, that is who.

 This issue, like Cap and Trade, is nothing but recycled Marxism, packaged to be more pleasing to those it is being sold to. But, no matter how pretty the package, or how wonderful the utopian promises sound, this is nothing but Marxism. It will devastate our economy, our liberty, and cost more than we can imagine.

Remember that Marxism has been tried, and has had many names, and has always failed miserably. It will always fail for one reason more than any other. It ultimately deprives people their choices, their freedom, the rewards of their skill and toil, and their self-reliance.

Cap and Trade would do what?

Apparently, according to the EPA, NOTHING!

EPA Administrator Jackson confirmed an EPA analysis showing that unilateral U.S. action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would have no effect on climate. Moreover, when presented with an EPA chart depicting that outcome, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he disagreed with EPA’s analysis.

“I believe the central parts of the [EPA] chart are that U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels,” Administrator Jackson said.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) presented the chart to both Jackson and Secretary Chu, which shows that meaningful emissions reductions cannot occur without aggressive action by China, India, and other developing countries. “I am encouraged that Administrator Jackson agrees that unilateral action by the U.S. will be all cost for no climate gain,” Sen. Inhofe said. “With China and India recently issuing statements of defiant opposition to mandatory emissions controls, acting alone through the job-killing Waxman-Markey bill would impose severe economic burdens on American consumers, businesses, and families, all without any impact on climate.”

I guess I ought to add that it WOULD raise our taxes, and energy prices, which, IS the real goal of the Neo-Marxists pushing so hard for it! Fact is these leeches will say anything, and hide their true agenda to gain more control of us all. Even some Democrats are resisting!

For now, as Hot Air tells us, Cap and Trade is on ice! Until September anyway. So do not stop trying to kill it!

Evidence that the global warming zealots are feeling the heat: The Senate Democrats have decided to delay action on cap-and-tax until after the August recess.

Your calls and faxes are not in vain. Keep it up:

The primary U.S. Senate committee responsible for writing climate change legislation will delay its work until September, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer said on Thursday.

Boxer, who earlier this week said she wanted her committee to finish writing its portion of legislation mandating reductions in carbon dioxide emissions before an early August recess, told reporters that instead, “We’ll do it as soon as we get back” in September.

The delay could be a setback to President Barack Obama, who wants quick congressional action on a climate change bill.

Move away! No hate crime here, move along!

This NOT, I repeat NOT a hate crime!

Akron police say they aren’t ready to call it a hate crime or a gang initiation.

But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty clear.

It came after a family night of celebrating America and freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two friends were gathered outside a friend’s home in South Akron.

Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted ”This is our world” and ”This is a black world” as they confronted Marshall and his family.

The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all black.

It might look like a hate crime, but it isn’t! It may sound like a hate crime, but it isn’t! It cannot be, because Eric Holder, our Attorney General, says so. According to him ONLY Gays and Blacks, can be victims of such crimes! So, no, it cannot be a hate crime.

Personally, I think the whole idea of re-defining certain crimes as “hate crimes” is a stupid move and does not belong in our justice system. Crime is crime, no matter the victim’s color, or gender, or sexual preferrences. All violent crimes should be punished equally, according to state laws.

I did, however wish to point out the hypocrisy of “hate crime laws” and the Liberals who favor them.

How popular is Obama really?

Less and less all the time it seems

Americans who believe that Obama’s progressive agenda is a danger to our Constitutional traditions and institutions have been encouraged by the Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index. The PAI is computed very simply — take the number of people who “Strongly Approve” of Obama and subtract the number of people who “Strongly Disapprove” and you get the index. If more people strongly approve, the index is positive. If more people strongly disapprove, the index is negative. As mentioned here at America’s Right this morning, the Index reached zero on June 28th and has continued a steady downward plunge since then.

As of today, it stands at -8.

 

So see, you folks calling Obama a zero are wrong! He is actually less than zero!

Oh my aching back!

Crashing for the night, my back, is doing its best to kill me tonight, so, sitting is OUT of the question!

I will get some important stuff up ASAP! But right now, it is ice pack time

Democratic Congressman: You expect us to read bills before passing them?

Representation with reading!

CNS is reporting that they asked the No. 2 Democrat in the House, Steny Hoyer, “whether he supported a pledge that asks members of the Congress to read the entire [health care] bill before voting on it and also make the full text of the bill available to the public for 72 hours before a vote.” Apparently, he found that humorous:

“House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.

“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” Hoyer told CNSNews.com at his regular weekly news conference.

. . . In fact, Hoyer found the idea of the pledge humorous, laughing as he responded to the question. “I’m laughing because a) I don’t know how long this bill is going to be, but it’s going to be a very long bill,” he said

How discouraging is this? Our “leaders” not only do not weigh the constitutionality of the bills they vote for, they have in fact, no clue what is in them! This is like you or I giving our banking information to that guy in Algiers that promises to deposit 50 million dollars into our account!

Where is the responsibility? The common sense? The desire to serve the people? It is simply not there! These gasbags stand in the House, or Senate, and speak on how this bill, or that bill, will help our nation, without knowing even what in the Hell they are voting for!

 Decisions that will affect our health care, our economy, our taxes, all decided by jackals that cannot be bothered to get off their lazy asses and READ what they are voting for! These men and women are supposed to be our best and brightest? Yeah right!

Give me thirty minutes, and I could find a dozen or more Americans that could do a more thorough and responsible job. If all they did was sit around and play cards, and never voted on anything, they would serve us better frankly!

Folks, I am so tired of this. Frankly, I would like to see every single member of the House that voted yes on a bill without reading it voted OUT of office next year! The same with every senator up for re-election next year! You can bet your behind I am going to decide my votes next November on that standard, and I call on every American to do the same! I am going to call it the Congressional Literacy Project! We are going to reach out and help our Congressmen learn that READING is truly FUNDAMENTAL to keeping their jobs!

Pachelbel Rant

David Brooks! The OTHER other white meat!

 Did David Brooks recently join the “Cool like Meghan McCain Republicans” ? It seems so, as he jumps on the bash-Palin bandwagon with both feet. He starts off writing what should be a fine column. I mean paying homage to George Washington is always a great thing to do.

But, as he rambles along, Brooks seemingly realizes he has  not, as RS McCain puts it stabbed anyone in the back yet and ventures forth on a despicable attack on Sarah Palin.

The old dignity code has not survived modern life. The costs of its demise are there for all to see. Every week there are new scandals featuring people who simply do not know how to act. For example, during the first few weeks of summer, three stories have dominated public conversation, and each one exemplifies another branch of indignity.

First, there was Mark Sanford’s press conference. Here was a guy utterly lacking in any sense of reticence, who was given to rambling self-exposure even in his moment of disgrace. Then there was the death of Michael Jackson and the discussion of his life. Here was a guy who was apparently untouched by any pressure to live according to the rules and restraints of adulthood. Then there was Sarah Palin’s press conference. Here was a woman who aspires to a high public role but is unfamiliar with the traits of equipoise and constancy, which are the sources of authority and trust.

In each of these events, one sees people who simply have no social norms to guide them as they try to navigate the currents of their own passions.

So, in David Brooks “Cool Like Meghan McCain” brand of Conservatism, making a decision to step down as governor is morally equivalent to cheating on your wife or molesting kids! Wow! But, being “cool like Meghan” Brooks manages to give us hope in a new dignity, by puckering up and delivering a sloppy kiss to the backside of the Obamassiah!

But it’s not right to end on a note of cultural pessimism because there is the fact of President Obama. Whatever policy differences people may have with him, we can all agree that he exemplifies reticence, dispassion and the other traits associated with dignity. The cultural effects of his presidency are not yet clear, but they may surpass his policy impact. He may revitalize the concept of dignity for a new generation and embody a new set of rules for self-mastery.

Yes, because apologizing for your country, supporting Marxists in the Honduras, completely ignoring our constitution and being all for partial birth abortions is way dignified!

Congratulations David Brooks, you are the first EVER winner of my newest award. The Moral Retard Award!

Pentagon denies flyover honoring military as “too Christian”

This makes no sense at all!

The Obama administration decided to turn down our request for a military flyover to honor our veterans at the 43rd Annual Treasure Valley God and Country Festival that took place on July 1, 2009, even though we have had flyovers in the past.

Thanks to Bryan Dooley at the Idaho Press-Tribune for reporting on this: Pentagon Nixes Flyover. You may contact the Pentagon here. Bloggers, Facebookers, and Twitterers, please help spread the word.

This has been a yearly event for 42 years, and the Pemtagon never denied permission. Why now? Hmmmm

Organizers of the God and Country Family Festival say the Pentagon denied a military flyover, which the celebration has featured for 42 years, because of the event’s emphasis on Christianity. “Basically, we applied to have a military flyover,” Director Patti Syme told the Idaho Press-Tribune Thursday. “We were given (Federal Aviation Administration) approval, and then had to apply through the Pentagon. When we applied they denied our request because, as the gentlemen stated, our Web site specifically stated that this is a Christian event.”

Change? Yes, but the wrong kind.

Oh great! It is the EnviroCops!

Playing now in England! Coming soon to  America?

Whether the British public is ready or not, here come the EnviroCops.  The Times of London reports that simply selling carbon credits hasn’t been enough to keep companies from potentially violating carbon-emissions limits.  Now they will send green-jacketed police to monitor their operations:

The agency is creating a unit of about 50 auditors and inspectors, complete with warrant cards and the power to search company premises to enforce the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), which comes into effect next year.

Decked out in green jackets, the enforcers will be able to demand access to company property, view power meters, call up electricity and gas bills and examine carbon-trading records for an estimated 6,000 British businesses. Ed Mitchell, head of business performance and regulation at the Environment Agency, said the squad would help to bring emissions under control. “Climate change and CO2 are the world’s biggest issues right now. The Carbon Reduction Commitment is one of the ways in which Britain is responding.”

The formation of the green police overcomes a psychological hurdle in the battle against climate change. Ministers have long recognised the need to have new categories of taxes and criminal offences for CO2 emissions, but fear a repetition of the fuel tax protests in 2000 when lorry drivers blockaded refineries.

Did I mention how crucial stopping Cap and Trade is?

Picture Fun

Stopping Cap and Trade!

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