The President arrives at 9:09 p.m. and the white, Christian sea parts…

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...I can’t help but wonder how many people watching him go on and on about banks and selfish CEO’s are thinking “greedy Jewish Shylocks,” but, hey, that can’t be helped…

--- not Chris Matthews

AgentBedhead

Argentina’s president recommended pork as an alternative to Viagra Wednesday, saying she spent a satisfying weekend with her husband after eating barbecued pork.
“I’ve just been told something I didn’t know; that eating pork improves your sex life ... I’d say it’s a lot nicer to eat a bit of grilled pork than take Viagra,” President Cristina Fernandez said to leaders of the pig farming industry.
She said she recently ate pork and ”things went very well that weekend, so it could well be true."…

speaking of…

Former John Edwards’ aide Andrew Young, who covered up the Democratic presidential candidate’s affair, said when he cleaned up his house after his role in the cover-up ended he found one more shocker.
“There was one tape that was marked ’special,‘“ Young told ABC News’ Bob Woodruff in an exclusive interview. “It’s a sex tape of Rielle and John Edwards made just a couple of months before the Iowa caucuses.”

Though Young never saw the woman’s face in the tape, he said she was “visibly pregnant” ...

There’s a pork joke here somewhere but I have to go hurl........

so far from Nature they couldn’t spot it with an eagle’s eyes

PETA wants to take Punxsutawney Phil away from Gobbler’s Knob and give the little guy a dignified retirement at an animal sanctuary. In his place, you guessed it: A robot groundhog.

delivered—unread

Mr. Obama, I think it’s time we had a heart-to-heart talk.  Let me be the father that you never had or never really knew, because I think you need some guidance.  It’s time to man up.  It’s time to grow up.  That speech last night was an embarrassment. You couldn’t focus, you lashed out in all directions, you refused to accept responsibility for your own actions, and you were angry.

. . .

The first Portland Police officer to arrive on the scene of the man who set himself on fire Wednesday outside the Nicholas Ungar Furs store, accidentally used pepper spray in an attempt to put out the flames instead of a fire extinguisher, officials at the Portland Police Bureau said Thursday.

Police said the officer, who was nearby, saw 26-year-old Daniel Shaull from Kansas on fire, parked her patrol car, went to her trunk and accidentally grabbed pepper spray used for riot control instead of the fire extinguisher........

Gov. Chris Gregoire violated state law by soliciting money for a congressional candidate during the legislative session, state regulators said Wednesday.

But Gregoire’s campaign committee, which sent the fundraising pitch, pointed to obvious ambiguities in the state’s guidelines for political donations and said there was no intent to skirt the law.
The issue arose Wednesday afternoon when Gregoire’s campaign committee sent an e-mail endorsing Democrat Denny Heck for the state’s 3rd Congressional District in southwest Washington.
In the e-mail, Gregoire asked her supporters to “take a moment right now to join the campaign by making a donation,” with a Web link to the donation page on Heck’s campaign Web site.
State law, however, bans elected officials from raising money for most political candidates during the annual legislative session. The blackout period, known as the “session freeze,” starts 30 days before the Legislature convenes and continues until lawmakers adjourn for the year.
In response to questions from The Associated Press, state Public Disclosure Commission spokeswoman Lori Anderson said Gregoire’s sales pitch for Heck would fall under that freeze.
“We don’t think that anyone subject to the freeze should be fundraising for other federal candidates, and we’ll work with the incumbents to make that clear to them,” Anderson said.

State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, who signed the e-mail along with Gregoire, also should not be soliciting donations for a candidate, Anderson said. It was unclear whether the agency would pursue any sanctions against either official................

Should Pennsylvania have a state firearm?
One state senator is giving the idea a shot.
Sen. Pat Browne, R-Lehigh County, is sponsoring a bill that would designate the Pennsylvania Long Rifle as the state’s official firearm.
Pennsylvania would become the first state in the country to have a state gun, according to the National Rifle Association.
To Browne and his supporters, the measure is a celebration of history and a decidedly Pennsylvanian contribution toward America’s independence....

continuing the theme…

It was surreal to watch a politician announce his top priority is job creation, then spend the next hour listing class-warfare enemies. I hope people making less than $250k per year start hiring like crazy, because everyone with a higher income just became a hated enemy of the state. Why, if they work for a large corporation, they shouldn’t even have free speech rights!

It’s painful to listen to someone who wants to add nationalized banks to his collection of state-run car companies wax poetic about the power of entrepreneurs, then list all the ways he’s going to punish risk-taking and achievement. Anyone who successfully starts a business, and creates jobs through rising profits and expansion, will quickly become a member of the evil $250k Legion of Doom.

High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced Thursday by the White House — the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era.

Thirteen rail corridors in 31 states received funds. The White House, which supplied a list of the grants to reporters late Wednesday, billed the program as “high-speed rail,” although most U.S. projects won’t reach the speeds seen in Europe and Asia…

staggering

[SCOTUS] open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.

This is either blithering ignorance of the law, or demogoguery of the worst kind.

...one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.

rly?

...I am not interested in re-litigating the past.

bwaaaahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahhahaha

Starting in 2011, we are prepared to freeze government spending for three years.

< 1% of the deficit.  IF Congress goes along…

Yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. So I will issue an executive order that will allow us to go forward, because I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans.

Which is the very definition of “one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem.”

Now, let me repeat: We cut taxes.  ...  I thought I’d get some applause on that one. ... And we haven’t raised *income taxes* by a single dime on a single person. Not a single dime.

Nice work-around.  Weasel.

I want a jobs bill on my desk without delay.

Take more $$$ out of the economy and enslave

We can’t afford another so-called economic “expansion” like the one from the last decade –- what some call the “lost decade”…

Who?  Who calls it that?  Do I need to get out more—is that it?

… serious financial reform ... We need to make sure consumers and middle-class families have the information they need to make financial decisions.

WTF?!??  Economic predictability?  Only way to do that is to control the Free Market—which is called fascism and/or socialism—and creates the kind of uncertainties that made an economic dip into the Great Depression.  Or to destroy it altogether, which is called communism.

That couldn’t possibly be what Teh iWon meant....  could it?

...we can put Americans to work today building the infrastructure of tomorrow.

Wasn’t that the purpose of Porkulous?  “Shovel-ready”?  How’s that workin’ out for US, eh?

Phoenix… Philadelphia… Allentown, Pennsylvania… Elyria, Ohio… Tampa, Florida… Elkhart, Indiana… Galesburg, Illinois… the House…

oooooo!!!  He mentioned My Place!  *applause*

I’m exhausted.  What were your favorite Terminological Inexactitudes?

*term courtesy of Winston Churchill via Tom McClintock

After President Obama told the nation during Wednesday’s State of the Union address that he inherited the huge budget deficits befronting the country, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) turned to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and said, ”Blame it on Bush.”

(from here)

A teenage girl has been pulled out of the rubble in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, a full 15 days after the earthquake struck, rescuers say.
They said she was happy and shocked despite being severely dehydrated and having a leg injury.
Her rescue comes five days after the Haitian government officially ended the search and rescue operation…

Obama called on Congress to “correct” the [ Supreme ] court’s decision last week…