Monthly Archives: July 2010
Yes we can have college football playoffs
My podcast on College Football Playoffs is up check it out here
Chris Wysocki: I am not sure you can make lemonade out of Government Motors!
Ah yes, GM making the cars of the future, the cars that will “save the planet” and make us all better people! Of course, I suppose being better people somehow involves paying three times the value of rolling lemons!
When Pravda The New York Times calls your shiny new electric car a “lemon“ you’d better make sure it comes in bright yellow. Unless of course you’re the United Auto Workers Pension Plan doing business as Government Motors. Then the joke isn’t on you, it’s on the U.S. taxpayer.
So the future of General Motors (and the $50 billion taxpayer investment in it) now depends on a vehicle that costs $41,000 but offers the performance and interior space of a $15,000 economy car.
Well, this is clearly THE car that epitomizes Team Obama’s version of hope and change now isn’t it? Overpaying for things that do not work as advertised and that make our lives worse, not better! And letting unions screw us all? Well that is just an added bonus!
Well, thank you Anderson Cooper!
I, like the folks at Weasel Zippers have to give CNN’s Anderson Cooper credit for this!
Chevy Volt Slogans
Here’s some Chevy Volt slogans I just thought up.
The Volt: Because We Already Tried Pedals.
Chevy Volt: The Name Says It All.
The Volt: Speed, Comfort And Style. What Do You Need Those Things For When You’re Only Going 40 Miles?
Chevy Volt: It Almost Beats Walking.
The Volt: This Is Not Your Father’s Golf Cart.
Chevy Volt: 10 Times The Smugness Of The Prius At Only Twice The Cost.
The Volt: Because Horsepower Is Sooooo Yesterday.
Chevy Volt: Don’t Laugh, You Own The Company.
Why not leave us a reply with your own Volt slogans? 
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Leaked Immigration Memo Discusses Ways To Bypass Congress On Amnesty – National Review
According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” – that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress.
“This memorandum offers administrative relief options to… reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization,” it reads.
Also: “In the absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform, USCIS can extend benefits and/or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to parole-in-place, deferred action and the issuance of Notices to Appear (NTA), and adopting significant process improvements.”
In recent weeks, Sen. Chuck Grassley and others in Congress have been pressing the administration to disavow rumors that a de facto amnesty is in the works, including in a letter to Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano. “Since the senators first wrote to the president more than a month ago, we have not been reassured that the plans are just rumors, and we have every reason to believe that the memo is legitimate,” a Grassley spokesman tells NR. (NR contacted DHS, but a spokesman did not have a comment on the record.)
Many of the memo’s proposals are technical and fine-grained; for example, it suggests clarifying the immigration laws for “unaccompanied minors, and for victims of human trafficking, domestic violence, and other criminal activities.” It also proposes extending the “grace period” H-1B visa holders have between the expiration of their visa and the date they’re expected to leave the country.
With other ideas, however, USCIS is aiming big. Perhaps the most egregious suggestion is to “Increase the Use of Deferred Action.” “Deferred action,” as the memo defines it, “is an exercise of prosecutorial discretion not to pursue removal from the U.S. of a particular individual for a specific period of time.” For example, after Hurricane Katrina, the government decided not to remove illegal immigrants who’d been affected by the disaster.
The memo claims that there are no limits to USCIS’s ability to use deferred action, but warns that using this power indiscriminately would be “controversial, not to mention expensive.” The memo suggests using deferred action to exempt “particular groups” from removal – such as the illegal-immigrant high-school graduates who would fall under the DREAM Act (a measure that has been shot down repeatedly in Congress)… The memo claims that the DREAM Act would cover “an estimated 50,000″ individuals, though as many as 65,000 illegal immigrants graduate high school every year in the U.S.
In the immediate wake of the court decision blocking the Arizona immigration law yesterday, the memo is sure to create controversy – and the sense that the administration is bent on preserving and extending the nation’s de facto amnesty.
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Floods Kill At Least 430 In Pakistan – CBS
The death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 430 on Friday, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.
Pakistani TV showed striking images of people clinging to fences and other stationary items as water gushed over their heads. Helicopters were also shown winching people to safety.
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Charles Rangel: No Sweetheart Ethics Deal Says GOP, Trial Is On – The Examiner
Amid erroneous reporting that a deal had been struck today, Rangel was charged with a list of thirteen ethical violations; and yes, there will be a trial.
The Republican members say the time has passed to negotiate the trial , and since their votes are needed – the trial appears to be on. For himself, Charles Rangel had predicted “… it may not be pleasant Thursday”.
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At Least 140 Dead In DR Congo River Disaster – NewsMeat
At least 140 people have died after an ferry overturned in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said Thursday. There were conflicting reports about how many people have survived.
The boat overturned Wednesday after hitting a sandbank on the Kasai river, a tributary of the Congo river, in Bandundu province in the west of the vast central African country.
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NEA Celebrates Communism – WorldNetDaily
The National Education Association is suggesting its teachers and NEA-connected schools celebrate China on the anniversary of the repressive communist regime’s violent founding.
The NEA’s website has a page called Diversity Events and lists Oct. 1 as the day to celebrate Chairman Mao’s revolution. Worldview Weekend President Brannon Howse says the NEA is also advocating multiculturalism.
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Manning Tied To Afghan Wikileaks Data – Sweetness & Light
Investigators have found concrete evidence linking Private First Class Bradley Manning with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a defense official said.
A search of the computers used by Pfc. Manning yielded evidence he had downloaded the Afghanistan war logs, which span from 2004 until 2009, the official said. It’s not clear precisely what that evidence is.
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Forest Fires Kill 29 In Russia – Sydney Morning Herald
Forest fires in Russia’s worst heatwave in decades have killed 29 people, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has visited one of the worst hit areas to reassure angry residents.
People in a village in the central Nizhny Novgorod region where all 341 houses burnt down confronted Putin as he toured the area on Friday, many wiping tears from their eyes, television reports showed.
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Brewer To Appeal Arizona Ruling – Politico
Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer quickly announced Wednesday that the state will appeal a federal judge’s ruling striking down key portions of Arizona’s immigration law.
“This fight is far from over,” Brewer said. “In fact, it is just the beginning, and at the end of what is certain to be a long legal struggle, Arizona will prevail in its right to protect our citizens.”
Hot Air » Video: The Rise of the Thought Police?
This sounds like religious discrimination plain and simple to me. I do not necessarily think this is anti-Christian as it is an attempt to indoctrinate people who dare to hold views that are not approved of by the Left. This woman has an opinion. She holds every right to express it. This is about punishing certain beliefs, certain ideologies, and certain value systems that do not meet the “standards:” of the Thought Police!
Smitty gets it, why can’t Liberals?
Smitty, who secretly tells me the genius of The Other McCain is all HIS doing, has the best quote ever on Obamacare!
Other than the realities that these ideas are un-Constitutional, have already failed in Europe, and we can’t afford them, I really don’t see any problems here.
Well Obama DID say he wanted to fundamentally change America
But, sadly too few of us ever heard what he really meant. Right Scoop shares this video from Glenn Beck that will cause you to fear for this nations future. And it will steel your resolve to send the Democrats packing this November!
Your Daley Dose of Rock N Roll
Anyone remember the Little River Band? I always loved this song by them
Perfect description for Charlie Crist?
Michelle beat me to the perfect nickname for Charlie Crist.
Really. I don’t know what else to call it. But in just seven brief, fleeting seconds, Charlie Crist manages to show us what the rock bottom of political lame-assery looks like: Smug mixed with deer-in-the-headlights fear mixed with vulgar, instinctive political calculation, topped with a sickly orange glow.
Lame-Assery!! PERFECT! It describes Charlie to a tee! He is the most obvious sell-out say anything to get elected bottom feeding politician I can imagine. The only bigger loser than Charlie Crist are people who do not tip, and folks who will still vote for his sorry lame-ass!
And by the way, I just have to name Crist as our Daley Douchebag!
Obama: We MUST extend unemployment benefits so that drug addicts and criminals can keep gettng paid!
Via Doug Powers who always does a nice job filing in for Michelle Malkin, although he does not look as nice in a skirt as Michelle does.
Politics 101: If you’re trying to convince hard-working Americans — many of whom are holding down multiple jobs — to support their tax dollars going towards extending unemployment benefits to people who have allegedly fallen on hard times, your “grounds-of-compassion” example should not be a criminal.
By way of Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:
Many of the OOTD entries have to do with poor research informing statements from Barack Obama, but today’s is perhaps the most embarrassing. Obama wanted to get a photo opportunity with a real, live, unemployed person — only no one bothered to check why Leslie Macko lost her job:
Leslie Macko was once employed at ACAC in the Albemarle Square Shopping Center. In 2009, Macko was convicted of prescription drug fraud, at which point she lost her job as an esthetician in the spa at ACAC.However, on July 19, Macko was seen standing next to President Barack Obama as his example of the needs to extend jobless benefits.
Another gaffe by Team Obama. I mean with so many Americans out of work, due in large part because of Obamanomics, you might think he could find at least one who was not canned for such a good reason. Seriously, how tough is it ask this question. Why were you fired?
Da Tech Guy gets it
At least I think he does on this case making headlines right now
When I first read this story my jaw dropped on the floor and rolled around a while:
A federal judge has ruled in favor of a public university that removed a Christian student from its graduate program in school counseling over her belief that homosexuality is morally wrong. Monday’s ruling, according to Julea Ward’s attorneys, could result in Christian students across the country being expelled from public university for similar views.
Sounded an awful lot like the Georgia case, I wrote about earlier. My outrage button was pushed and heading into overdrive but when I read the Fox story there was a twist that I noticed that should not be ignored:
She was removed from the school’s counseling program last year because she refused to counsel homosexual clients.
This is a most important sentence, we would not allow a doctor to refuse to treat a homosexual man, I can’t see how this is different than an Islamic bus driver keeping a guide dog off the bus.
A counselor’s job is to give advice, there is nothing wrong with a counselor shaping and framing that advice based on their beliefs (we are all of us are shaped by our beliefs) but to refuse a patient based on said beliefs, particularly in a training program, that’s off.
In private practice a person can pick and choose patients, but during training that is a different matter altogether.
I agree, his point is quite valid. It is like the Pharmacists years ago who dd not want to fill certain prescriptions (The Morning After Pill), on the grounds of their religious views. But, their EMPLOYERS set the rules, not them, if they had their own pharmacy, that would be a different story.
Pimp Your Mosque!
Pimp Your Mosque! – Pajamas Media
Holy Shiite! Pious pilgrimage just got more exciting at Imam Reza’s shrine in Iran, where for a reasonable fee (see price list below) a mullah can join any eager pilgrim in holy matrimony of “temporary marriage” with his choice of a lovely, fully hijabed, and properly veiled prostitute for a period between 5 hours to 10 days. Pedophiles welcome: girls as young as 12 years of age are standing by. Not to worry, the mullahs got them covered: all “temps” under 14 must show a written consent from their fathers or male guardians (no doubt on advice from the recently fired, now freelancing ACORN specialists).
We are not making this up.
According to a document obtained by Planet-Iran.com, the mullahs are doing it not for the money (what’s a 5% pimp cut for a holy shrine?), but out of the noble desire “to elevate the spiritual atmosphere, create proper psychological conditions and tranquility of mind” of “those brothers who are on pilgrimage to the shrine.” Verily, what true believer can maintain tranquility of mind and not succumb to sexual yearning while away from his other wives for nearly a week? No pious man should have to suffer such inhumanity.
Here’s how it works. The mullah performs a ceremony that sanctions the “morality” of the relationship for a period specified in the “prenuptial agreement” (not more than 10 days, minimum charge 5 hrs) — in direct proportion to the size of the “bridegroom’s” wallet. When the “godliness” of their prepaid romance expires, the “honeymooners” descend from the moral high ground to get an easy, Sharia-compliant divorce.
No citing of irreconcilable differences is required — but if it had been, I imagine the most common case would sound something like “I’m a deeply religious person, and she is a whore.” As Allah and his prophet Mohammed would have it, a man can have many wives, so no laws are broken and the decorum is intact.
Everyone is happy: the mullahs count their money, the enlightened “pilgrim” goes home with a renewed sense of moral self-righteousness, and the recurrent bachelorette is back on the bridal market. In her case it’s the reception room of the Center for Temporary Marriage (just next door to the shrine), where she sits on the couch reading Modern Bride and waiting, with a fainting heart, for the door to swing open and a tall, dark, handsome bridegroom to rush in, lift her in his arms, and carry her to the altar, and they would have a family and live happily ever after for as long as a whole week, or maybe even for the entire maximum allowed period of ten days.
But don’t take my word for it. Here’s the full document, translated into English by Planet-Iran.com:
In the name of Allah who is most gracious and merciful
Temporary Marriage (Marriage is among the traditions of the Prophet Mohammad)
In order to elevate the spiritual atmosphere, create proper psychological conditions and tranquility of mind, the Province of the Quds’eh-Razavi of Khorassan has created centers for temporary marriage (just next door to the shrine) for those brothers who are on pilgrimage to the shrine of our eighth Imam, Imam Reza, and who are far away from their spouses.
To that end, we call on all our sisters who are virgins, who are between the ages of 12 and 35 to cooperate with us. Each of our sisters who signs up will be bound by a two-year contract with the province of the Quds’eh-Razavi of Khorassan and will be required to spend at least 25 days of each month temporarily married to those brothers who are on pilgrimage. The period of the contract will be considered as a part of the employment experience of the applicant. The period of each temporary marriage can be anywhere between 5 hours to 10 days. The prices are as follows:
· 5 hour temporary marriage — 50,000 Tomans ($50 US)
· One day temporary marriage — 75,000 Tomans ($75 US)
· Two day temporary marriage — 100,000 Tomans ($100 US)
· Three day temporary marriage — 150,000 Tomans ($150 US)
· Between 4 and 10 day temporary marriage — 300,000 Tomans ($300 US)
Our sisters who are virgins will receive a bonus of 100,000 Tomans ($100 US) for the removal of their hymen.
After the expiration of the two-year contract, should our sisters still be under 35 years of age and should they be so inclined, they can be added to the waiting list of those who are seeking long-term temporary marriage. The employed sisters are obligated to donate 5% of their earnings to the Shrine of Imam Reza. We ask that all the sisters who are interested in applying, to furnish two full-length photographs (fully hijabed and properly veiled), their academic diplomas, proof of their virginity and a certificate of good physical and psychological health which they can obtain through the health and human services of the township of their residence. Please forward all compiled material and send to the below address by the 31st of the month of Ordibehesht, 1389 (May 21st, 2010).
Attention: For sisters who are below 14 years of age, a written consent from their fathers or male guardian is required.
Address: Mash’had, Shrine of Imam Reza, Shaheed Navab-Safavi, Kossar passage, Bureau of Temporary Marriages
or call Haji Mahmood Momtaz: 98/511/222-5790
And you thought speech codes only existed on your local public radio. The mullahs have been perfecting the magic of word games too, and with great efficiency. For instance, the above document can be used as proof that there is no prostitution in Iran.
Obviously, it is not sex tourism as long as they call it “visiting holy shrines.” It is not sexual exploitation as long as the clients are called “brothers” and the whores are called “sisters.” It is not a brothel as long as you call it a “Bureau.” It is not prostitution as long as it is called “temporary marriage,” the hustler is a mullah, and the pimp cut is an “obligatory donation.”
See? No prostitution whatsoever. Just like there are no homosexuals in Iran. Sanctimonious language works every time whenever an irrational culture keeps people blind to reality, compelling them to judge others by what they say and not by what they do.
The mullahs are very peculiar about maintaining a highly moral society. And the society plays along, by exhibiting a highly moral behavior. And what happens in the Shrine of the Eighth Imam, stays in the Shrine of the Eighth Imam.
You may still be smirking about the new definition of “temporary employment agency.” Or yucking that the meaning of “brothers” and “sisters” will never be the same again. And it may be a while before you stop associating the word “honeymoon” with the crescent on top of a mosque.
But don’t be in a hurry to act superior. It seems ridiculous only because you’re not accustomed to it. There are similarly ridiculous absurdities with which you grew up in your own culture without giving them much thought, or gave up fighting them.
For example, haven’t you yourself swallowed and digested — at least partially — similarly sanctimonious speech codes of the American mainstream media? The political correctness as practiced by educators, entertainers, and politicians, who believe that a change of words can somehow change the objective reality?
The details may be different on the surface, but the core belief is the same — the game of banning, promoting, and inventing words puts them in control of your mind. At least in this respect, East and West appear to be sharing the same values.
Generally speaking, the Islamic culture is rather restrictive. But with a pious decorum and all the correct words, anything goes — from pedophilia to wholesale slaughter. Just don’t forget to call it love, peace, friendship, tolerance, or sensitivity. And keep repeating “in the name of Allah who is most gracious and merciful” — bismillah al rahman al rahim — as often as you can.
The sanctimonious disguise can go a long way — even as far as New York, where you can build a mosque next to the ruins of Ground Zero and call it “a friendship center.” As an added bonus, you get the moral right to malign the protesting Americans as “bigots” — and do so with a full backing on part of New York’s “useful intellectuals” — a small but powerful sect with an extremely sanctimonious culture of their own.
Technically, the Muslim clerics behind the Ground Zero mosque are not the same as the Iranian mullahs, but their religionist tactics and belief in Sharia are identical. And although the New York sect is of a secular variety, it is also just as pious and self-delusional. Just as it is with the mullahs, anything is permissible here — from pedophilia to theft to wholesale slaughter — as long as one claims good intentions and uses a politically correct language, like love, peace, friendship, tolerance, sensitivity, or economic equality and justice. Based on emotion rather than reason, the sect’s irrational culture keeps its adepts blind to reality and compels them to judge others by their words rather than by their deeds.
And that is why the New York sect has no objections to Sharia, as long as its proponents use all the right words. The two sects seem to understand each other so well because on a deeper level they both speak the same language. That makes them natural allies. At least for the time being.
Saluting Elton John
The Reb pays a little homage to Elton John, and it is well deserved!
Elton, Thanks from the Reb.
3. Arizona
As for him not joining others in boycotting the above performances, Sir Elton says “They are f***wits!” We couldn’t agree more.
Any fans of The Deadliest Warrior here?
I love this show which runs on Spike TV! And Season 2 ended last night with an ultimate matchup between Israeli Commandos and Navy Seals, and the winner was……….
Yes OF COURSE! The Navy Seals won,no surprise, the Seals are the baddest of the bad, and as an ex Israeli Commando put it on the show, we are both fighting the same enemy. God bless all the special forces fighting Jihadists!
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Dave C
