March 5, 2010
Archive for March, 2010
How long has this photo been on Rep Rangel’s site?
March 5, 2010Pres Ronald Reagan on $50 bill?
March 5, 2010March 5, 2010
Speaker Pelosi re: Reps Rangel, Stark, Levin
March 5, 2010March 5, 2010
Rep Sander Levin statement re: new appointment
March 5, 2010March 4, 2010
Rangel’s (original) replacement, Pete Stark’s fascination with urine
March 5, 2010March 4, 2010
Update 3: Shooting at Pentagon Metrorail Station
March 5, 2010March 5, 2010
*Update 1 [scroll down]
**Update 2
***Update 3
According to Pentagon Police Chief Richard Keevil - at 6:40pm yesterday (4th), a man calmly approached 2 Pentagon Force Protection Agency officers at the Pentagon Metro stop. The officers asked to see his pass. The man, described as having “no emotion on his face”, reached into his pocket, removed a weapon and without saying a word shot both officers. Officers returned fire “many shots”, wounding the suspect.
The suspect’s injury described as “pretty critical” and the officers’ as “grazing” with the “injury to the suspect is a lot more severe”. No one else was injured.
No locations given for the injuries but it sounds like each sustained only one GSW. All three being transported to George Washingtion Hospital.
No name or description of the suspect given but they “have an ID” and “multiple addresses” and are “still running down leads”.
Sounds curious.
If it were a regular man acting on his own, why would there be multiple addresses? And why would there be a need to run down leads if the suspect has an ID and multiple addresses to investigate?
An insane person might have multiple addresses but one would think Pentagon police officers would have noticed something in his behavior.
A disgruntled regular user of the Metro would have made his complaints known.
So who would walk up calmly and without a word attempt to assassinate two anonymous police officers? And out of all the stops, why outside the Pentagon?
Is it SOP for the Pentagon PD, Arlington County PD, Secret Service and FBI to be involved the investigation?
Chief Richard Keevil, Pentagon PD
Wonder what the not appropriate question was?
The Metro will function as normal on Friday except no stops at the Pentagon station.
*Suspect: 36 y/o John Patrick Bedell from California
Died from GSW(s), location(s) not specified. Body arrived at the medical examiner’s office shortly after midnight.
First time there was a shooting outside the Pentagon.
Question of whether someone else was involved and whether he harbored a resentment toward the military.*
**Yahoo AP reporting possible motive revealed from online postings by JPatrickBedell who was:
determined to see that justice is served” in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up. [And that] the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.
The same posting railed against the government’s enforcement of marijuana laws and included links to the author’s 2006 court case in Orange County, Calif., for cultivating marijuana and resisting a police officer. Court records available online show the date of birth on the case mentioned by the user JPatrickBedell matches that of the John Patrick Bedell suspected in the shooting.
How long before he is connected to the birthers?**
***Mr Bidell had a longstanding history of Bipolar Disorder, poorly controlled.
One wonders what would have happened had they left him alone to grow his marijuana. Especially since BD is an indication for medical marijuana and he ended up getting a medical card.
Bedell parked his truck in a nearby shopping mall. He was well-dressed in a jacket, dress shirt and pants. He began shooting when he was within 5′ of one officer. Evidently Bedell then fled because MSNBC reports 3 officers gave chase. Bedell was shot in the head and arm and later died. Unknown how many shots were fired or where the police officers were shot.
Of course barrymedia is connecting Bedell with the Nazi and the man who flew his plane into the building. They don’t seem to realize that BP is a medical illness and that Bedell’s motivation will never truly be known. He didn’t say a word and as far as has been made public, he did not leave a note. Lumping Bedell in with the others is not only irresponsible it’s ignorant.***
Healthcare: GOP in no-win situation, as devised
March 4, 2010March 3, 2010
When are folks going to wake up and realize barry doesn’t care who wins or loses? He just wants to be the first president to pass healthcare, especially since Secy Clinton and Ted Kennedy couldn’t.
He only wanted to become president “the first black president” to be exact. Not act as president. He never acted as senator. Something folks didn’t seem to interested in then. Now it’s clear to the whole world he has no idea how to govern or lead or command respect. Why the new party line is: his inability to pass healthcare is hurting our standing in the world.
The most hated president in recent history was able to pass things through a Democrat-controlled Congress and barry had a supermajority and a 60-70 approval and couldn’t do anything.
Besides not having a clue, barry stalled under the guise of bipartisanship – the made for TV kumbaya mission of goodwill – so if the Republicans still refuse (no matter how reasonable) he will have an out.
No different than his usual MO. Stall until forced to act and then try to be absent or just vote present. And if that doesn’t work – do the most politically expedient thing.
Where’s the mystery?
If the Republicans refuse to cooperate, whatever happens is their fault.
If they capitulate, they lose their own constituents.
Either way barry wins.
He can say he wanted x and had to settle for y because the Republicans refused to work across the aisle and that’s why it went bad. Or, see, the Republicans ended up voting for it – just more of those Washington games.
Even as he makes not so backroom deals and stalls so as not to have to make a decision.
And he’s been getting away with it because folks refuse to face the truth:
barry is Washington. He chose to meet only with Democrats at the beginning. He reneged on his vow to televise proceedings. He bought people’s votes. He gave deals to special interest groups. He talked more than all the Republicans combined during that alleged bipartisan summit.
And he will continue to get away with it unless people wake up.
Problem for Democrats, folks are awakening. Angry folks who have had enough of the lies and media corruption and of being called racists.
Which is precisely why the barrymedia has been indoctrinating listeners for over a year that those angry people are crazy birthers and racists and white supremecists and angry vets and paranoid militiamen, all of whom pose serious threat to the president because he is black.
By now Democrats want him to release his birth certificate – if only on principle. They’re tired of listening to the “birthers” in townhalls and the politicians are getting tired of avoiding them.
So why hasn’t he?
The one and only constant about barry is political expedience.
At this point, it is more politically expedient to release his birth certificate.
He hasn’t.
Because he can’t.
Dear POTUS: Where is the Nobel prize money?
March 4, 2010March 4, 2010
Anyone know where the $1.4M is going?
Initially the WH – Bill Burton specifically – said it would go to charity.
POTUS Proclamation: Irish-American Heritage Month
March 4, 2010March 3, 2010
This is an interesting proclamation for Irish-American Heritage Month. Emphasis added.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States do hereby proclaim March 2010 as Irish-American Heritage Month. I call upon all Americans to observe this month by celebrating the contributions of Irish American to our Nation with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
And those appropriate ceremonies and activities? Revolve around St Patrick’s Day and drinking and eating corned beef and cabbage. And the green fountain at the White House.
He mentions Ted Kennedy and how his “legacy lives on in the legislation he championed”. It has to because his seat is gone – to of all people – a Republican.
Why was DC declared a disaster area yesterday because of snow in December?
March 4, 2010March 4, 2010
Not sure why this is happening now.
Yesterday, he declared that “a major disaster exists in the District of Columbia” in reference to a snowstorm on Dec 18-20. And that federal funding is available for “emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe winter storm and snowstorm”.
What kind of damage took place?
There was no ice – just regular old snow.
And how does an emergency EXIST now – 70 some days after a simple snowstorm?
It seems totally bogus, especially with this:
Federal funding is also available for hazard mitigation measures.
What are hazard mitigation measures?
FULL TEXT OF DECLARATION FOLLOWS
Same-sex marriage now legal in DC
March 4, 2010March 3, 2010
States allowing same-sex marriage/civil unions
DC City Council passed the “Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009″ on December 15th and on the 18th, Mayor Adrian Fenty signed it. Judge Judith Macaluso affirmed the DC Board of Elections and Ethics decisions that a referendum on same-sex marriage would violate the Human Rights Act. Congress failed to act within the 30 days it is allotted (March 2). And Chief Justice Roberts declined to get involved:
It has been the practice of the Court to defer to the decisions of the courts of the District of Columbia on matters of exclusively local concern.
So, as of today, same-gender marriage is legal in DC.
151 gender neutral licenses were applied for. Takes 3 business days to process them, so Tuesday, March 9th will be the soonest folks can officially get married.
DC becomes the seventh place to make same-sex marriage legal behind Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire. Maine’s was defeated by referendum on 11/3/09.
Maryland will recognize same-sex unions performed elsewhere until the state legislature or courts decide otherwise.
Republicans being blamed for “allowing” same-sex marriage bill to pass.
Capt Sullenberger talks with press after landing in Charlotte
March 4, 2010March 3, 2010
Doreen Welsh re: retirement
March 3, 2010March 3, 2010
US Airline Pilots Association re: Capt Sully retirement
March 3, 2010March 3, 2010
Captain Sullenberger re: retirement
March 3, 2010March 3, 2010
Flight 1549: Capt Sullenberger, Doreen Welsh retiring
March 3, 2010March 3, 2010
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UK Cleric: “Islam does not mean peace – Islam means submission”
March 3, 2010March 2, 2010
Rasmussen: Approval Index -14
March 3, 2010
Jay Leno: Adam Lambert “Sleepwalker” (video)
March 3, 2010March 2, 2010
*updated with new video that of 3-4 works.
**3-21 second video replaced.
Adam Lambert was the musical guest on the Tonight Show. He followed Sarah Palin and her stand up (video/text) and gold medalist Shaun White.
Performed “Sleepwalker” from his album “For Your Entertainment”.
Don’t know how long this video will be available. Couldn’t find one on the NBC site.
*Sure enough the original video was removed. Here’s one courtesy of TrailerTrashific. Amazing quality.
**And the second was removed as well. Here’s one courtesy of BROADWAYTVARCHIVE
Jay Leno: Sarah Palin stand up (video/text)
March 3, 2010March 2, 2010
Adam Lambert “Sleepwalker” (video)
Sarah Palin was on Jay Leno tonight along with gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White and Adam Lambert. Palin started with a joke at her own expense – the writing on her hand. Leno’s own joke about it.
PART 2: Palin makes a joke at Jay’s expense. He asks her if she would ever give up politicis for a talk show and she slapped his desk and said: “I hear once in a while this comes open”.
She then made her “comedy debut”.
[hand transcribed]
SARAH PALIN (2:30):
I am so happy to get to be here. This is a thrill of a lifetime. In Alaska, things are so different than Los Angeles….here when people have a frozen look on their face…I find out it’s Botox.
It is so beautiful here…so warm…back home it was freezing…it was 5 degrees below Congress’ approval rating.
Great show tonight. Shaun White on the show – oh, what an amazing athlete! I watched him do a Double McTwist 1260 and the only other people who can do Double McTwist 1260 was last week, the White House, on healthcare.
Great to be on the same show with Shaun White…last time I was this close to the Flying Tomato was when someone threw one at me at a book signing!
[true]
I watched the winter Olympics, skiiing, sliding on the ice, skating, bobsledding…in Alaska, that’s our morning commute.
And how about that amazing closing ceremony…it was beautiful. The minute I saw the giant moose, I remembered, I hadn’t cooked anything for the kids’ dinner.
And that’s because I’ve been busy….I picked up a gig in Las Vegas at the Legends Show playing Tina Fey.
And next, I get to headline…I’m going to be the speaker at the NRA Convention – so be there or else!
The truth is though, I’m glad I’m not vice president…I would not know what to do with all that free time!
Jay thank you so much for inviting me. I saw where it’s been a few weeks of unfair, non-stop crtiticism, people who don’t know the real story….so, Jay, welcome to my world.
Red Cross photo exhibit chronicles 150 yrs of war (video)
March 3, 2010March 2, 2010
Humanity in War
Frontline Photography since 1860
March 3 – July 25
Red Cross museum in Geneva
Civil War to present
Over a dozen conflicts depicted
Archive of more than 110K photos – only 40 photos chosen
Traces the evolution of the International Committee of the Red Cross
See 5 of the photos
From the exhibition page of website:
This photo exhibition is enriched with video collations of images taken by five of the world’s top war photographers, from the VII Photo agency, James Nachtwey, Ron Haviv, Christopher Morris, Franco Pagetti and Antonin Kratochvil. They depict the reality and brutality of armed conflict today, but they also show that even in the darkest hours of despair there is a sense of hope and pride.
South Korea: Shoe fetish gone wild (video)
March 3, 2010March 1, 2010
Video weirdness in South Korea.
1,700 pairs of shoes on display to hopefully be claimed by original owners. The shoes were allegedly stolen from mourners at funerals over the years pair by pair by a single man now 59. The shoes were found in his house packed into apple boxes.
The Onion: barry caught lip-syncing! (video)
March 3, 2010March 2, 2010
Would have been funnier if TOTUS began speaking on its own.
Courtesy of The Onion
He hasn’t done anything good since the Democratic National Convention anyway.
Is Hayworth a “birther” or not?
March 2, 2010March 1, 2010
Why does the media persist in saying the “birther” issue is resurfacing again when it has never left?
It never will until he produces his birth certificate.
The ‘birthers’ are perhaps the most bizarre of the protest movements against the president.
He mentions REP BURGES’ birth certificate bill that passed out of committee and Sen McCain challenger JD HAYWORTH, who Milam calls “a champion of the so-called birthers’ movement”.
January 26th on Matthews, Hayworth said barry should come forward with the information.
Feb 17th on Campbell Brown, he said it was an identity theft issue not an esoteric argument about birth certificates and eligibility and that only the media was raising the question.
[Not sure why this video only sometimes loads. Here's the link.]
In this undated footage of Hayworth, he once again seems interested in the birth certificate issue.
HAYWORTH: Now we require voters to demonstrate they are who they say they are when they go to cast balllots. I think everyone on the ballot in Arizona should have to provide documentation.
Sen McCain is taking adavantage as well, linking Hayworth with Taitz and Berg.
MILAM puts the latest media spin on the ‘birther” issue: he’s not a citizen.
[Birthers] continue to question whether he was born in the United States at all and therefore whether he is legitimately president.
And then he says proof has been provided by Hawaii, which is another lie.
But authorities in Hawii have provided proof that Obama was born there.
The only “proof” provided is a digital image that Hawaii has said nothing about.
And of course he brings up race.
And in the video is Rep Kyrsten Sinema who was quoted in the initial story on Rep Burges’ bill. Sinema’s words then proved barry wouldn’t be able to produce proof that would pass the secy of state’s scrutiny should the bill pass.
SINEMA: This bill is what I would call patently ridiculous and also offensive. The truth is he is. He was born in the United States and he’s provided that proof time and time again.
The bill has nothing to do with barry. It is not retroactive. It would only matter in 2012.
And why would a lawmaker find any bill that ensures the integrity of the Constitution “ridiculous and offensive”?
For the record, barry has never produced a birth certificate of any sort. This article is so far off it says barry’s birth certificate was burnt in a fire.
MILAM: The White House has consistently dismissed the issue. Authorities in Hawaii have provided an electronic record of Obama’s birth because the paper copy was destroyed in a fire, which wiped out much of the state’s archives.
What?
Where did that whopper come from?
It’s like CNN making Dobbs read a statement that Hawaii isn’t able to produce a paper copy because they threw it away when they went electronic. A lie of course.
Don’t they realize how utterly ignorant they look calling “birthers” bizarre when they don’t even know the facts?
Same media propaganda. Whoever owns Sky News has been corrupted as well.
MILAM: The White House laughs off the birthers’ claim. But with crucial midterms elections 9 months away, the voices of protest are getting louder.
Meaning the media can’t ignore them with the elections coming up – nor can the politicians seeking re-election.
So why aren’t Democrats up for re-election hammering at the WH to release a copy so that issue is taken out of the campaign?
Sexism 2010: today’s Morning Joe
March 2, 2010March 2, 2010
If you’d like to see the current state of the perception of women in America, watch the first 15 minutes of Morning Joe from this morning (3-2). Listen for the not so camoflauged sexist code words and watch the body language. I’m not going to detail anything so you can decide for yourself what you see and hear.
Germany: Turkish father stabs 15 y/o daughter 68 times
March 1, 2010February 28, 2010
Why?
Because he thought she was an intruder.
Coward couldn’t even admit he killed her as alleged by prosecutors “because she had a boyfriend (17) and was a heavy user of her mobile phone and the internet”.
And the murdering father – MEHMET O (46) – was quick to say that stabbing his 15 y/o daughter BUSRA 68 times had nothing to do with “honor killing”.
What I did was horrible. What happened has nothing to do with family honour.
And yet, after he stabbed the “intruder” 68 times, leaving the intruder’s body on the sofa where the intruder normally had slept, he ran away. And when the police found him, the muslim murderer said something about the intruder his daughter “not choosing the Muslim way“.
Same as always. The muslim murderers are so proud of their acts and so certain they are justified but when caught that certitude leaves them. Suddenly they whine about their own strict upbringing and their depression and their “disorientation” on the day of the murder.
He wasn’t so disoriented he didn’t know what he did was wrong or else he would not have fled and he would not have made up such a lame story. 68 plungings of a knife into a 15 year-old girl as she slept takes a long time and involves great conviction in what one is doing (unless mentally ill). If it takes 2 seconds for each stab, dad spent over 2 minutes stabbing his daughter to death.
Not outlined – where the stab wounds were located.
And if it is a matter of “honor” what type of dishonor is brought to the muslim murderer who is too cowardly to admit he murdered his own daughter in order to protect his family’s honor?
Whatever “family honor” he was supposed to be protecting by killing his daughter, he dishonored by lying about it.
Schweinfurt, Germany Prosecutor Rainer Guendert:
The accused did not approve of his daughter’s western lifestyle.
Where does this “west” begin?
It has nothing to do with west, east, north, or south. It has to do with muslim and non-muslim. People who believe murdering ones child is justified and those who do not.
How “honorable” is a religion that claims killing their own daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, neices, or grandmothers is a matter of honor?
No human entity and certainly no human religion can justifiy the murder of a child as she sleeps.
Period.
It is what it is.
Evil men killing innocent women because the women are enlightened and want more than to be oppressed by savages who have not moved past the 7th century.
Turkey: 16 y/o Medine Memi buried alive by father and grandfather
watzup
March 1, 2010March 1, 2010
Hey watzup-
All’s well. Had to work the Olympics. It’s too depressing a thought to have to write about all the same evil again. Not sure why folks are interested in the birth certificate/eligibility issue again when it is no different than it was when it first came up. I’ll look through the drafts and post whatever I have.
