November 24, 2009
Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits
Chris Matthews comments on the new birth certificate billboard just outside Denver, Colorado that incorporates Fort Hood and features cartoon barry in a turban.
Also includes some of Robin Williams jokes re: Sarah Palin (Letterman video) and an audio clip of Lou Dobbs mentioning a possible run for president.
Birthermania lives on…Know-nothings…Birchers.
It’s nothing new and obviously not a good advertisement for America.
November 24, 2009
Robin Williams on Letterman last night tells a few jokes about Sarah Palin.
TheVidWorld
(Hand transcribed. Starts 0:40 )
I went looking for her book and found it in the fantasy aisle.
With Sarah, do you get the feeling that in high school she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?
You look at her and you think how did they find her….Project Running Mate?
I love the fact that they thought Katie Couric was ambush journalism with ambush questions like, ‘What do you read?’
‘That’s a trick question.’
Not if you read.
November 24, 2009
USA TODAY GALLUP Poll (+/- 4)
What is your opinion of the new mammogram guidelines?
Strongly agree 5%
Agree 17%
Disagree 29%
Strongly Disagree 47%
No opinion 2%
November 24, 2009
From MSNBC video page – not photoshopped.
Are these the kind of meetings barry’s been having?
Is Adam Lambert going to be the secret weapon?
November 24, 2009
Adam Lambert, Idol Top 10 posts/videos
Lambert: “I had fun” (CNN post AMA video)
I have to admit I was disappointed with Lambert’s performance. His singing was really off. And I’m sure he lost more than a few American Idol fans. As far as female performers getting away with sexual suggestion on award shows – I can’t recall one who grabbed another woman – or man’s face and jammed it into their gyrating crotch. Wonder what Madonna is going to dream up to get the attention back on her. Jennifer Lopez has to be ecstatic that the story isn’t her wipeout, which she said she didn’t recall.
Anyway. ABC has canceled Lambert’s appearance on Good Morning America. He was scheduled to perform Wednesday. He’s performed there before and also had his “coming out” interview on 20/20.
An ABC spokesperson told The NY Times;
Given his controversial live performance on the American Music Awards we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning.
And in the spirit of competition, CBS grabbed him up. He was already due to appear on Letterman Wednesday – but he will also appear on the Early Show to perform live and discuss his AMA performance.
According to CNN:
The Parents Television Council, a Media watchdog group, also attacked the show as vulgar and urged its members on Monday to contact ABC, Dick Clark Productions and the show’s advertisers with complaints about the content.
“Last night’s ‘American Music Awards’ broadcast was nothing short of tasteless and vulgar. Adam Lambert, the second-place finisher in last season’s ‘American Idol’ competition, chose to treat American families to simulated oral sex and other demeaning behavior,” the PTC posted on its Web site.
Melissa Henson, director of communications and public education for the PTC, said the council wasn’t concerned about Lambert’s gay kiss. Its issue and focus are on the simulated oral sex, she said.
“The gender has nothing to do with it,” Henson said. “It would be true if it had been a woman’s face that was thrust into his crotch.”
Henson also noted that this is not an anti-Adam Lambert campaign and said the council would have had no problem with Lambert performing live on “Good Morning America.”
“As long as he keeps it clean,” Henson said.
Small victory – they didn’t have a problem with the male-male kiss.
The Advocate (gay publication) gave a statement to Radaronline: (Lambert’s performance video at link also.)
In his first major television performance outside American Idol, Adam Lambert delivered the sexually charged number we expected from him last night on the AMAs. It was reminiscent of other envelope-pushing performances by provocative artists like Madonna and Janet Jackson. It’s unfortunate that ABC and Dick Clark Productions censored the performance for west coast audiences highlighting the double standard that still exists for gay entertainers.
November 24, 2009
Adam Lambert posts/videos
Lambert: GMA cancels – The Early Show books him
Adam Lambert’s post-AMA interview with CNN. Says he had fun and things just happen in the moment. Didn’t say how much of the performance was freelanced and how much was cleared in rehearsals. ABC evidently received 1500 complaint calls which is considered a “moderate” amount. ABC evidently did edit Lambert’s performance for the West Coast as well as Jennifer Lopez’s fall.
CNN via LA Independent
ADAM LAMBERT: Well I have fun. My dancers had fun. The audience that was in the Nokia tonight had fun. And anyone else who enjoyed it – thank you for being entertained.
Did Dick Clark know – did he know what you were going to do?
Part of what I love about being a live performer is that sometimes you just are in the moment and sometimes things just happen. Adrenaline is a crazy, crazy, crazy feeling. And it’s one of the things that I love most about performing is that when you’re up there and all of the sudden you just have these feelings, this rush that comes over you and things happen.
Was it a political statement?
As an afterthought, in hindsight, after the performance happened - I was just really in the moment to be honest with you – as an after thought, I do feel like there’s a bit of a double standard in the entertainment community, on television, on radio. I feel like women performers have been pushing the envelope, sexually, for the past 20 years. And all of the sudden a male does it and everybody goes ‘Oh, we can’t show that on TV.’ For me, that’s a form of discrimination and a double standard. And that’s too bad.
November 24, 2009
Updated H1N1 posts/symptoms/vaccine
Well Japan was ahead of the curve by developing their chic anti-H1N1 suit but their was no mention of ties or handkerchiefs.
Tampa dermatologist Dr Seth Forman says to ditch the tie because it can serve as a germ carrier.
Neckties are rarely washed or cleaned. If you touch someone after adjusting your tie, you run the risk of spreading germs.
Think about it. If a doctor is standing in front of his patient sitting on the exam table, the tie is at sneeze level.
Lab coats pose the same risk. That is why I do not wear one in my office. I don’t want to risk passing germs to my patients.
And what about a Santa suit – including the gloves?
November 24, 2009
Meow.
Martha Stewart goes off on Sarah Palin. One wonders if she finds Palin “boring” why she is answering any questions. Her Martha Stewart Collection must be doing well since Palin’s followers are “WalMart moms” which I imagine frequent KMart as well.
FOX
Q: Why do you think Sarah Palin is so polarizing?
STEWART: She is very boring to me, very boring. And, to me, kind of a dangerous person. I mean – she’s dangerous!
Q: In what ways?
STEWART: She speaks – she’s so confused. And anyone like that in government is a real problem.
Q: Meanwhile they’re saying her book is already a best-seller–
STEWART: Good for her! Good for her.
Q: Have you been able to cathc Sarah Palin’s interviews?
STEWART: Why is everyone asking that? I wouldn’t watch her if you paid me.
Not sure where this went.
November 20, 2009
Sen Burris’ Letter of Public Admonition from Ethics Committee
Sen Burris statement re: Senate admonishment
When we met with Roland Burris in January, we made it clear that in order for him to be seated in the U.S. Senate he needed to appear before the Illinois General Assembly to testify openly, honestly and completely about the nature of his relationship with the former governor, his associates and the circumstances surrounding this appointment.
Since then, the accuracy and completeness of his testimony and affidavits have been called into question. The U.S. Senate Ethics Committee has completed its review into this matter and found that Sen. Burris actions have brought discredit on him and the Senate. The letter of qualified admonition from the Ethics Committee speaks for itself.
November 24, 2009
Whatever happens this is going to help Blagojevich. barry’s no Old Washington = same old same old Chicago pay to play.
$300M bought Sen Mary Landrieu‘s (D-LA) preliminary healthcare vote and uninterrupted Medicaid payments for Louisiana. Since per capita income spiked after Katrina, the medicaid payments, which are based on per capita income, would be going down in 2011. Landrieu fought to make sure they wouldn’t.
If you think this is a new development, ask yourself why barry went to Louisiana for a completely orchestrated healthcare townhall (nothing to do with Katrina).
Sen Landrieu needs to learn the Chicago way – keeping her mouth shut.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) Chief Deputy Whip, Mike Huckabee and Morgan Fairchild (actress)
FOX
Newsbusters
You asked what Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas will ask for. Well, after watching Louisiana get $100 million in what have some have called “The Louisiana Purchase,” she ought to ask for $250 million at least.
And that’s because Obama said he would end business as usual in Washington.
If you look at the section, it is 2006 in which the Louisiana money, it looks as if it is provision for all states which have had a proclamation of a disaster area in the last seven years, and then the fine print inside eliminates all the others except Louisiana.
So it’s a new kind of business as usual.
I think that Steve is right. There is almost no way imaginable that the vote will fail tomorrow. If it is, it is the ultimate humiliation. It’s the rejection of the debate even before it starts.
November 18, 2009
David Plouffe is out hawking his barry book. Video from MSNBC appearance. Below the video is an excerpt about the VP selection.
Edwards tried to get the VP job.
Plouffe said: “We don’t obsess as much on these polls as perhaps others do.”
That “we” does not include barry.
And here’s what Plouffe wrote about Biden’s first meeting. Note how Secretary Clinton is referred to – the tea sipper who had no foreign policy experience and was just a house wife – albeit in the WH.
He said if his central criterion measured who could be the best VP, she had to be included in that list. She was competent, could help in Congress, would have international bona fides and had been through this before, albeit in a different role.
And he quotes barry as saying Bill would be a “complication” when the word really was “competition”. Interesting also is his comments on foreign policy - “judgment vs. Washington experience, a new foreign policy vision vs. the status quo”. And who did he pick for Secretary of State?
Excerpt from TIME [emphasis added]
“The Audacity to Win” by David Plouffe
Out the Ticket
What surprised me at [our first meeting to discuss the vice presidency] was that Obama was clearly thinking more seriously about picking Hillary Clinton than Ax and I had realized. He said if his central criterion measured who could be the best VP, she had to be included in that list. She was competent, could help in Congress, would have international bona fides and had been through this before, albeit in a different role. He wanted to continue discussing her as we moved forward.
We met again a couple of weeks later in mid-June and winnowed the list down to about 10 names.
At our next meeting, we narrowed the list down to six. Barack continued to be intrigued by Hillary. “I still think Hillary has a lot of what I am looking for in a VP,” he said to us. “Smarts, discipline, steadfastness. I think Bill may be too big a complication. If I picked her, my concern is that there would be more than two of us in the relationship.”
Neither Ax nor I were fans of the Hillary option. We saw her obvious strengths, but we thought there were too many complications, both pre-election and postelection, should we be so fortunate as to win. Still, we were very careful not to object too forcefully. This needed to be his call.
We had initially received a lot of advice from many of her supporters to pick her, though this “advice” was perhaps more accurately described as subtle pressure. Their fervor was abating a bit every day, though, helped by Hillary’s comments that this was Obama’s decision and that he should be left to make it.
In early August, he narrowed his list down to three names: Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia. Hillary did not make the last cut. At the end of the day, Obama decided that there were just too many complications outweighing the potential strengths. But I gave him a lot of credit for so seriously thinking about his fierce former rival. Some in the Clinton orbit thought we gave Hillary short shrift. My view is that any serious consideration was somewhat surprising given all the complications and the toxicity during the primary campaign.
Shortly before he took off for Hawaii and his much needed vacation, Obama asked Axelrod and me to meet with the three finalists. [We] pieced together a schedule that had us departing Chicago at 5:30 a.m. for Wilmington, Del., to meet with Biden; then on to West Virginia, where Bayh was vacationing with his family; and then to Virginia to meet with Kaine.
The [first] meeting started with Biden launching into a nearly 20-minute monologue that ranged from the strength of our campaign in Iowa (“I literally wouldn’t have run if I knew the steamroller you guys would put together”); to his evolving views of Obama (“I wasn’t sure about him in the beginning of the campaign, but I am now”); why he didn’t want to be VP (“The last thing I should do is VP; after 36 years of being the top dog, it will be hard to be No. 2″); why he was a good choice (“But I would be a good soldier and could provide real value, domestically and internationally”); and everything else under the sun. Ax and I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.
It confirmed what we suspected: this dog could not be taught new tricks. But the conversation also confirmed our positive assumptions: his firm grasp of issues, his blue collar sensibilities and the fact that while he would readily accept the VP slot if offered, he was not pining for it.
Later that day, we met with the two other finalists. Bayh’s answers to our questions were substantively close to perfect, if cautiously so. Seeing Bayh right after Biden provided some interesting contrasts and comparisons. Listening to Bayh talk, I thought, There’s no way this guy will color outside the lines. Biden may cross them with too much frequency. Biden will probably end up having more range — he can reach higher heights but could cause us real pain. Bayh’s upside and downside are probably the closest spread of the three. As the day grew long, we headed to Richmond, our last stop. We appreciated [Kaine's] opening remarks. “I’d be honored to be picked,” he told us. “But I have to assume I’m at the bottom of the list right now. I’ll try to explain why I think I’d be a good pick, both for the campaign and after we win, but just know that I won’t have an ounce of hard feelings or disappointment if I don’t get picked. I signed on to this team in the beginning — all I want is for Barack to be elected President.”
There was no great way to explain putting someone with no foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. If we chose him, we would need to rely on some of the same language we had used on this issue as it related to Obama — judgment vs. Washington experience, a new foreign policy vision vs. the status quo — but doubling down would make it twice as tough for us to roll this boulder uphill.
Later that night, we held a conference call with Obama to brief him on our day. “Well, it sounds like you both are for Biden, but barely,” he said. “I really haven’t settled this yet in my own mind. It’s a coin toss now between Bayh and Biden, but Kaine is still a distinct possibility. I know the experience attack people will make if we pick him. But if that really concerned me, I wouldn’t have run in the first place. My sense is — and you tell me if the research backs this up — that Barack Hussein Obama is change enough for people. I don’t have to convince people with my VP selection that I am serious about change.”
The selection of his vice-presidential nominee was his first presidential decision. On the evening of Aug. 17, he called Ax and me with the news. “I’ve decided,” he said. “It’s Biden.”
And where’s Biden been hidin’?
The absolute truth is if barry was discovered to be ineligible – “Hillary” would be president and no way they would allow that.
November 24, 2009
I posted this video clip initially for Palin’s “backassward“. And then I heard Willie Geist slip in his own sexist comment about Sarah Palin. He compares Palin’s book bus tour to a rock band Whitesnake.
GEIST: Doing it like Whitesnake did in the 80′s – city to city.
He didn’t pick that particular band by mistake. What band doesn’t tour city to city on a bus?
Whitesnake (obvious meaning with white male band) featured an illustration of a naked brown-haired woman straddling a huge snake on one of their album covers. Shows what Willie thinks with.
It’s these constant remarks that go unnoticed [except by the male audience they were intended for] and unremarked upon that reveal the systemic sexism and sexual objectification of women in the media. It’s how the sexual pervert Letterman has been making a living. Don’t hold your breath that he will lose his job over having sex with various subordinates in and out of the workplace. Having sex with his subordinates is not considered against his company policy.
November 24, 2009
The video is only (3:43) so it covers just a couple of barry’s photo ops.
South Korea, Dover, Arlington, Oval Office and footage of the panic brought on by Air Force 1 dive bombing New York/New Jersey.
RobtKraft
Thanks RobtKraft – you should make more – there’s plenty to chose from.
November 24, 2009
Shameful.
barry stops by to visit troops in South Korea and makes clear why he’s there: a photo op. It’s how he views the military.
Have you ever heard him say that as Commander in Chief he is thankful for their service?
FOX
To all the airmen, soldiers behind me - you guys make a pretty good photo op – we are thankful for your service.
Video of more photo ops.
November 24, 2009
Clip from MSNBC. Sarah Palin chats with Barbara tabloid Walters and reveals a new Palinism in reference to barry’s handling of the economy. Previous Palinism: “quasi-caved“. Ms Walters has lost all credibility as a hard-hitting journalist once she crossed over to The View. If she were still a journalist, she would have corrected all the lies that got perpetuated on that show during the campaign. And she would have been able to put Whoopi Goldberg in her place re: her ignorant remark that repeated penile penetration of a 13 y/o girl by a man over 3 times her age isn’t rape rape.
PALIN: Those are backassward ways of trying to fix the economy.
WALTERS: You have a way with words.
PALIN nods, blinks: I call it like I see it.
Republicans coin new words with decipherable definitions.
Palinism: quasi-caved
Bushism: recruiterments, misunderestimate, misunderstimated, video collection
Democrats use the same old words that have no meaning.
The meaning behind Willie’s reference to Palin and Whitesnake.
November 24, 2009
Geraldine Ferraro discusses Sarah Palin’s book. Palin had given Ferraro a shout out on the trail and also in her book. They haven’t spoken since the book – they share a lawyer.
Ferraro brings up that Palin had had a spontaneous abortion and had the medical diagnosed to “spontaneous miscarriage”.
The proper medical terminology for loss of a fetus is abortion: spontaneous when it occurs without intervention and elective when intervention is intentionally chosen. It’s politics that labels “abortion” specific to the intentional removal of a fetus.
She also brings up sexism in the way the MSM covers women political candidates.
I remember when Gov Sebelius was being talked about for VP. The very first thing they listed was she’s attractive. It wasn’t for Biden.
Sen Durbin makes it sound like bringing terrorists to Illinois is the best job creation job. According to Rep Kirk – they will not be hiring anyone over 37 and it will be a nationwide search – not just local.
Report: Ill. Prison Deal Could Create 3,000 Jobs
Quad-City Times
November 22, 2009
A deal to house Guantanamo Bay detainees at a northwestern Illinois prison could bring nearly 3,000 jobs to the area, a White House analysis says.
Residents from the seven-county area surrounding the Thomson, Ill, prison would be “excellent candidates” for up to 1,400 of the jobs generated in the deal’s first year, according to the report by the president’s Council of Economic Advisers.
The report comes as officials from the federal Bureau of Prisons and the Illinois Department of Corrections toured the facility Saturday, along with Democratic lawmakers from Illinois and Iowa.
“It’s a great gathering from both sides of the river, Illinois and Iowa, folks who understand how desperately we need jobs in this area,” said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois. “There are too many people out of work, there are businesses closing down because people are out of work. They need paychecks.”
Converting, opening and running Thomson as a federal facility would create 840 to 910 temporary jobs and between 3,180 and 3,880 ongoing jobs over the first four years, according to the White House report. Jobs not filled by local residents would go to people who relocate to the area.
The Department of Defense and Bureau of Prisons would turn the facility into a federal prison to be used to relocate detainees. Thomson is about 150 miles west of Chicago and was built by the state in 2001 with 1,600 cells. But budget problems prevented it from fully opening, and it now houses about 200 minimum-security inmates.
Republican lawmakers largely oppose the plan, raising questions about the safety of housing terrorism suspects and the deal’s true economic impact.
Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Dubuque, Iowa, and others said those fears are unfounded.
“The time for fear-mongering is over,” Braley said. “I have listened to my constituents all week, and they have told me with a resounding voice they want these jobs to come to their area.”
November 23, 2009
Rep Mark Kirk talks about Gitmo detainees coming to Illinois Interesting comment – Thomson Correctional Center is only 22 miles from a nuclear reactor.
November 23, 2009
Rep Mark Kirk (R-IL) is dead set against the Gitmo terrorists coming to Illinois. It is certainly going to help him out in some areas of the state in his run for senate. He has introduced a bill HR 4086:
To require that certain conditions be met before the transfer of an individual detained at Guantanamo Bay.
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
H.R.4086
Guantanamo Detainee Transfer Impact Assessment Act of 2009
HR 4086 IH
111th CONGRESS
H. R. 4086
To require that certain conditions be met before the transfer of an individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 17, 2009
Mr. KIRK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To require that certain conditions be met before the transfer of an individual detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
This Act may be cited as the ‘Guantanamo Detainee Transfer Impact Assessment Act of 2009’.
(a) Requirements Relating to Transfer- A Guantanamo detainee may not be transferred to any State unless the following 3 conditions have been met at least 60 days before the transfer:
(1) A Homeland Insecurity Impact Statement has been prepared in accordance with subsection
(2) The President has submitted a copy of the Homeland Insecurity Impact Statement to each of the following–
(A) Congress;
(B) the Governor of the State to which the Guantanamo detainee is to be transferred; and
(C) the legislature of that State.
(3) The legislature of that State has consented to the transfer by a majority vote.
(b) Homeland Insecurity Impact Statement-
(1) PREPARATION- The Homeland Insecurity Impact Statement referred to in subsection (a) shall be prepared by the Comptroller General in consultation with–
(A) the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security;
(B) the Inspector General of the Federal Bureau of Investigations; and
(C) the Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
(2) FORM AND CONTENT- The Homeland Insecurity Impact Statement referred to in subsection (a) shall be in writing and shall include–
(A) the name of the Guantanamo detainee to be transferred;
(B) the location and the name of the installation to which the Guantanamo detainee is to be transferred
(C) an explanation as to why that location has been selected;
(D) an assessment of any risks which transferring the Guantanamo detainee to that location poses to–
(i) the security of the United States;
(ii) the residents of the United States;
(iii) the United States Armed Forces; and
(iv) the intelligence community as that term is defined in section 3(4) of the National Security Act 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).
(c) Definitions- In this section:
(1) GUANTANAMO DETAINEE- The term ‘Guantanamo detainee’ means an individual who on November 1, 2009, is detained at Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
(2) STATE- The term ‘State’ includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and any other territory or possession of the United States.
November 22, 2009
Live from New York it’s…Nasim Pedrad, Will Forte and Fred Armisen in “Obama and Hu Jintao”.
Press conference with barry and the Chinese president – with translator. China wants their money back and…a personal favor of sorts…
saturdayepisode
Selected quotes – hand transcribed.
BO: Unfair valuation of Chinese currency, trade imbalance, human rights.
HU: I completely understand why you feel entitled to come and lecture China on its shortcomings.
HU: How many jobs have you created?
BO: So far…none.
HU: How exactly is extending healthcare coverage to 30 million people going to save you money?
BO: Uh…I don’t know.
HU: Each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money.
HU: Will you kiss me?
HU: I like to be kissed when somebody’s doing sex to me!
HU: I suppose if I wanted to get my money I could call and say I was a Wall Street banker who needs his bonus. But really, why should I have to stoop to that level.
HU: Are you going to at least treat me to dinner and a movie?
BO: I’m sorry?
HU: I think it’s the polite thing to do before doing sex to me!
BO: We are taking steps to make sure that what happened will never happen again.
HU: What steps?
BO: Reform of banking regulations.
HU: Do I look like Mrs Obama?
BO: What?
HU: Do I look like Mrs Obama?
BO: Of course not.
HU: Then why are you trying to do sex to me like I was Mrs Obama!!!
BO: Now, now…
HU: Just do it — get it over!
BO: Mr President.
HU: Don’t be a tease.
BO: I just-
HU: I can take it!
BO: This is not the time or the place.
HU: Very well.
added 11-24: CNN’s post-AMA interview
Lambert: GMA cancels – The Early Show books him
November 23, 2009
Adam Lambert, Idol Top 10 posts/videos
Adam Lambert performed last night at the American Music Awards. (video) Can’t exactly post it here. Devin Hester’s wardrobe malfunction and SNL’s barry skit is more than enough R rating for the day. Just think leather, leashes and bi-curiousness. Definitely not American Idol material. His album “For Your Entertainment” hits stores today and he’ll be on Good Morning America and David Letterman this week.
Here’s an interview he did after his AMA rehearsal.
Awardshownetwork
Here’s Access Hollywood’s interview after Lambert’s performance. He’s not happy.
busty121
Here’s Jennifer Lopez’s wipeout (2:55).
November 23, 2009
Streetsboro, Ohio: Man walks into a bank and hands the teller a note demanding money. He leaves with money (with dye pack) and his note and flees in dark colored Escort. Police pull over a black Ford Escort and find in the vehicle a .38-caliber pistol and a wad of cash covered in red ink. Police handcuff the now suspect and escort him back to the cruiser where the dashcam picks up the action. Police empty the content of the man’s pockets on to the hood. Man sees large square of white paper (presumed bank robbery note), leans over and gobbles it up. Investigators ask for the note – police review the video and voila! mystery solved.
(No audio)
Patrolman Daniel Biada:
He grabbed it in his mouth, just like Pacman.
November 23, 2009
For mature viewers – partial nudity.
The only thing memorable about the game besides Peanut Tillman.
I thought there was supposed to a delay to catch these sort of things…
doningbox
Soldier Field – Bears vs Eagles
November 23, 2009
Thomson Prison: Letter from Members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation to Gov. Quinn
Friday, 20 November 2009
Below, please find a letter from members of the Illinois congressional delegation to Gov. Pat Quinn regarding questions about the transfer of Al Qaeda/Taliban detainees from U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay to a future military-controlled detention facility in Thomson, Illinois.
November 19, 2009
Governor Pat Quinn
Office of the Governor
207 State House
Springfield, IL 62706
Dear Governor Quinn:
As we move forward with a dignified and precise discussion regarding the cost, security and legal issues regarding the transfer of Al Qaeda/Taliban detainees from U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay to a future military-controlled detention facility in Thomson, Illinois, we would like you to provide answers to the following questions so that our delegation, state legislature and people of Illinois can learn the details of your proposal.
After informal briefings by the Bureau of Prisons and Department of Defense, the Administration has not scheduled any follow-up briefings for members of Congress in Illinois. No future briefings are scheduled.
As you know, Kansas Gov. Sebelius formally raised concerns with Secretary Gates when she was approached by the Administration with a similar proposal. We have attached a copy of her letter of January 28 for your reference.
We ask that you consider these issues which must in any case be resolved if this plan moves forward. We believe the elected representatives of Illinois, in Washington and Springfield, should review the answers to these questions as we consider this proposal.
Sincerely,
Mark Kirk
Don Manzullo
Tim Johnson
John Shimkus
Peter Roskam
Aaron Schock
Judy Biggert
November 23, 2009
Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits
Unknown NJ lawyer questions Rep Scott Garrett (R-NJ) about the birth certificate issue. The lawyer took up so much time asking the question he let Garrett off the hook. A woman off camera says it’s time to move on to healthcare. Garrett said the courts were deciding the matter and when pushed he said:
There is no political solution to it even if the entire Republican Party was to–
And then he got cut off. He doesn’t seem to realize all it takes is one.
lonhosford
The video was produced by njcommonsense (tea party). On the site there’s a post by LON HOSFORD with this odd paragraph:
Does Obama Birth Documentation Measure Up?
There is Obama birth documentation indicating he was born in more than one place. This is not unexpected today due to the lack of confidence US citizenship proof in general. We come to accept that a person could have inconclusive or contradictory proof and get away with it. The birth certificate documentation you do see on the Internet will never measure up to what millions of Americans say they need for proof. This is a key item that helps make this issue persist. Americans detest unequal treatment. The intensity varies depending on what we see as unequal. It is strongest when it is about something integral to being an American such as citizenship.
November 20, 2009
Updated list of Fort Hood posts
This is just wrong. The Army knew as far back as 2007 that the muslim murderer was proselytizing on top of being fat, stupid and unreliable. Here’s a memo documenting his poor judgment and lack of professionalism.
Highlights: he allowed a homicidal psychotic patient to escape from the ER, he failed to show up for call and didn’t answer his pages and he failed *Step 3 of his medical licensing test preventing him from getting his license so he was held back until he did. Most troubling, in his final year of residency, he saw only 30 patients in 38 weeks in a community clinic. In a university clinic, he would easily see 30 patients a week.
Why did it take until the end of the rotation to discover it?
In a residency outside the Army this would not have been tolerated. Political correctness has led to murder of Americans on American soil by an Islamic terrorist. It has to stop.
NPR obtained the memo signed by the chief of the Psychiatry Residency at Walter Reed, Major Scott Moran. After listing the muslim murderer’s deficiencies, Maj Moran concludes:
In spite of all this, I am not able to say that he is not competent to graduate, nor do I think a period of academic probation at the end of his training would be beneficial.
He would be able to contain his behavior enough to complete any period of probation successfully.
Contain his behavior? Sounds like a time bomb.
Step 3 United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE)
Step 3 assesses whether you can apply medical knowledge and understanding of biomedical and clinical science essential for the unsupervised practice of medicine, with emphasis on patient management in ambulatory settings. Step 3 provides a final assessment of physicians assuming independent responsibility for delivering general medical care. A principal organizing dimension for Step 3 design is normal conditions and disease categories. Second and third organizing dimensions are the clinical encounter frame and physician tasks. Step 3 content reflects a data-based model of generalist medical practice in the United States.
PRITE EXAM is a test taken by psychiatry residents 3-4 times during their residency. It covers all the separate components of psychiatry and is used to assess the competency of residents and highlight the areas that need attention.
GMEC - Graduate Medical Consortium
The GMEC mission is to improve access to high quality primary care for citizens of Southwest Virginia by forming educational partnerships between communities, local physicians, and primary care residency programs in Virginia, Tennessee North Carolina, Kentucky, and West Virginia. GMEC creates and supports medical residency preceptor sites in rural and underserved communities in Southwest Virginia.
CCN’s Campbell Brown – NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling discuss memo.
November 22, 2009
I don’t know why barry went on that particular day or what his true personal mission was but in the end it doesn’t matter.
It was wrong.
Those courageous souls gave everything they had in life. The government should not have control over them in death.
Their families wishes should be followed. Every family’s wishes, without any deviance.
I hope that was true in this case.
My father and all five uncles served in WWII. I don’t know what they would have wanted for themselves or their buddies. They didn’t talk about their service because they were the “lucky ones who made it home”.
I watched a single transfer. I felt I should bear witness out of respect for the fallen.
I was wrong.
It was an intrusion into a sacred ceremony. A final rite that should be performed with a uniform silent dignity – each of the fallen given full attention by their fellow soldier.
It is something that should be experienced only by those who have a direct bond, whether by family or by service.
One goes because one belongs there – not to be seen to have been there.
And that was the only reason for the press.
The cameras were not there to document the soldier’s courage in the face of death – they shouldn’t be allowed to politicize the soldier’s sacrifice after death.
The Fort Hood Memorial Service was different. It was televised and open to the public. It happened in the midst of a community and not on the battlefield and not only soldiers were shot. And it was something the Commander-in-Chief was expected to speak at to the nation and to the world.
Thank you to every servicemember – past, present, citizen or not – for volunteering to risk your lives for our Freedoms.
November 18, 2009
November 22, 2009
Fr Weslin/Fr Jenkins/Notre Dame posts
May 16, 2009 Notre Dame arrest
Update email from Linda @ Fr Weslin’s wesbite.
Father’s trial still hasn’t happened. It was put off until December and we
haven’t heard of dates yet. We need to get information out on the website
but unfortunately our webmaster is moving and is swamped right now. I’ll
try to let you know when I hear anything.
Not sure what the final disposition was with his Nov 5 DC arrest protesting the healthcare bill.
November 20, 2009
Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuits
barry, refried beans and Sotomayor billboard
Updated
There’s a new billboard that has a little more info than WND’s “WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?”
This one features a grinning cartoon likeness of barry in a turban with “PRESIDENT or JIHAD?” written above it, a yellow box with red letters “BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PROVE IT!” and below that: “WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT HOOD”.
It was commissioned by Phil Wolf, owner of Wolf Interstate Leasing and Sales, approximately 7 miles outside Denver. It was put together by artist David Lee, who said he heard plenty of honks while he was putting it up – it’s positioned so that it is visible Interstate 70, including Mr Wolf’s name and phone number.
The turban, of course, makes it racist, MoveOn is calling for a boycott of the dealership and by Monday Mr Wolf will have been arrested for refusing to remove it or villified by the barrymedia or attacked by the community or fined or whatever.
Unless barry gets a rebound in the polls because of it. Then they’ll keep it up. Olbermann started in last night, lumping Glenn Beck in with the birthers, when Beck came out a long time ago and said barry released his BIRTH CERTIFICATE and birthers are crazy and it would destroy the country if it were true.
According to AP/MSNBC, birthers are fringers, who claim barry was not in born the US and think the “BIRTH CERTIFICATE is a fake“.
What barry is pawning off as a “birth certificate” is a digital image that has been altered at least three times. And no high-tech forensic investigation is needed to prove it.
The key to barry is what’s not there…what’s not said…what’s missing.
In this case, there is no uninterrupted image of the back side of the CERTIFICATION of Live Birth. The seal (which also not pictured in its entirety) and the registrar’s signature have to seen in situ to confirm it is a certified copy. Until then, it is not an official anything and is a forgery until proven otherwise.
One could argue that it’s reasonable for him to refuse to release his original vital records – but it is not at all reasonable for him to refuse to provide images of that COLB from every possible angle and hard copies of it to any and all media outlets.
And if was derived from an official Hawaii certified copy of CERTIFICATION of Live Birth, there would never have been any lawsuits or birthers. Birthers exist because of barry. He can make them go away. Instead he’s paying his personal lawyer over $1.5 M to defend him in court 10 months after his botched oath.
June 2008, barry posted that digital image and people — who routinely ridicule and attack the “birther movement” – still have no idea what they’re talking about.
At this point, one wonders if they’re lazy, brainwashed or afraid of losing their job.
And this is what enrages birthers:
Obama’s Hawaii birth certificate along with birth notices from the two Honolulu newspapers were brought forward even before he took office. State officials in Hawaii have repeatedly confirmed that Obama was born in Honolulu.
1-No BIRTH CERTIFICATE has ever been produced.
2-The digital image on his website has not been connected in any way to what Dr Fukino saw.
3-Dr Fukino said only once – in her second statement – that barry was born in Hawaii. And then she promptly proved herself unreliable when she deemed him a natural born citizen.
Citizens Against ProObama Media Bias
