(in support of gay marriage legislation)

The government has no place telling people who they can or can not marry.

FOX is baaaaad!

[from email]
All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama’s agenda ...

Now, President Obama is fighting back. The White House communications director said FOX is a “wing of the Republican Party...let’s not pretend they’re a news network.”2 To draw attention to its biased coverage, President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year.3

...Democrats will only find the courage to join Obama if they hear from enough concerned voters. Sign this petition to ask Democratic leaders to stay off FOX. [at MoreOn.org][no linky for U] ...The petition says: “Democrats should support President Obama’s effort to call out FOX. Please stay off FOX for as long as he does.”

“Fighting back”?!?  Has Teh iWon ever been on FOX?  I remember they shied away from FOX doing debates during the campaign [not that much has Changed].

The Obama administration has released new deficit numbers, and they are not pretty.

The deficit for fiscal year 2009, which ended Sept. 30, came in at a record $1.42 trillion, more than triple the record set just last year.

In addition, future deficits are currently projected to total $9.1 trillion in the coming decade.

Jake Tapper: REAL journalist

It’s escaped none of our notice that the White House has decided in the last few weeks to declare one of our sister organizations “not a news organization” and to tell the rest of us not to treat them like a news organization. Can you explain why it’s appropriate for the White House to decide that a news organization is not one …

For years, leading plaintiffs’ lawyers have promised a legal assault on industrial America for contributing to global warming.

So far, the trial bar has had limited success. The hurdles to such suits are pretty obvious: How do you apportion fault and link particular plaintiffs’ injuries to the pollution emitted by a particular group of defendants?

Today, though, plaintiffs’ lawyers may be a gloating a bit, after a favorable ruling Friday from the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans, which is regarded as one of the more conservative circuit courts in the country.  Here’s a link to the ruling.

The suit was brought by landowners in Mississippi, who claim that oil and coal companies emitted greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming that, in turn, caused a rise in sea levels, adding to Hurricane Katrina’s ferocity…

President Barack Obama has been talking about cleaning up the mess he found after his election for some time.

Now his party is cleaning up some of his own words.

“The mop’’ has gotten the attention of people who say they are tired of Republicans taking the blame for the state of the nation. Time for everyone to pick up a mop, the president says, and clean up the mess the Republicans have made.

The Democrats, however, have cleaned up the president’s own comments—editing the “socialist mop’’ out of remarks that he made at a party fundraiser last week, in a new Website video picking up the presidential mop line and running after the Republicans.

hehhehhehheh he said socialist

Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak employment market could linger for years.

That could add up to a “new normal” of higher joblessness and lower standards of living for many Americans, some economists are suggesting.

persistent as a horsefly

More than a decade after Congress cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another federal health agency has been spending millions of dollars to study such topics as whether teenagers who carry firearms run a different risk of getting shot compared with suffering other sorts of injuries.  [cost: $642,561]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) also has been financing research to investigate whether having many liquor stores in a neighborhood puts people at greater risk of getting shot.

erm… duh. Why this would even need a $1 “study” is beyond me.

[Don Ralbovsky, NIH spokesman] “Gun related violence is a public health problem - it diverts considerable health care resources away from other problems and, therefore, is of interest to NIH, ...

“These particular grants do not address gun control; rather they deal with the surrounding web of circumstances involved in many violent crimes, especially how alcohol policy may reduce the public health burden from gun-related injury and death,”

Funny how “choosing to be a dumbass-gang-banger” is not a part of this study.  Nor how there came to be so many unemployed, unmotivated youth hanging out on street corners [*cough*War on Poverty*cough*] Odd how “keeping MS-13 from swarming en mass across the border” wasn’t even mentioned.  Nor studying how “gun-free” societies like England deal with street violence—or is a cricket-bat beating easier [cheaper] to treat?

No.  These Progressives in their Infinite Wisdom™ are still trying to legislate utopia.

Ahh, yes—here’s the phrase:

“Whether the members of Congress like it or not, gun violence is a public health problem in America today.” [Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Washington-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]

Here is the Good Morning America segment on Mike’s son, Sgt. Christopher Rudzinski: Rules of Engagement in Afghanistan

Our thanks to Chris Cuomo and the GMA producers for both their thoughtful tribute and respectful consideration towards Christopher’s family.

TUA

a constant learning experience

Listen up all you redneck, bitter clinging ignorant moronic ruralist Amerikkkanz!  Here’s a new one on ya—albeit somewhat more erudite in tone.

“Today, common sense won out over ideological stubbornness as our nation’s law enforcement agency formally adopted a new and well-balanced policy on medical marijuana use...”

[Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) [on] the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) directive to agency lawyers not to prosecute individuals who use or prescribe medical marijuana in states that have legalized the drug for that purpose.]

I guess I’m just ideologically stubborn if I think we ought to follow—and enforce—the Laws of the land as they are written.  I’m ideologically stubborn if I think that a work-around by fiat is not a particularly good way to go, instead of bringing the facts before The People and giving them the opportunity to change the Law if they believe it to be a bad Law.

The merits of this particular case are not what is occupying my focus, here [although the billboard on the freeway advertising “Doctors” who will give any dang fool a “prescription” for “Medical MJ” “Seniors 10% discount!” gives me a clue].  What worries me is the penchant—unquestioned by anyone—of this administration to simply create Change without playing by the rules.

What might they decide to ignore next?  What other Law might they directive out of existence?  And what can We The People do about it, anyway?  Write your Congressman?!? Hell—they’ve been attenuated to the point where they’re ‘bout as useful as a milk bucket under a bull.  And they seem not to even realize it.  Or care.

Yanno....  When some∅ne clings to his ideologically stubborn Maoist comrades, that’s somehow not A Bad Thing…

Funny Old World....

When will these Right Wingers quit with the faux quotes????

---Larry, head Lympian of the mookatorium

Oba Mao?