April 14, 2010
States allowing same-sex marriage/civil unions
Gay rights group Restore Equality 2010 had campaigned to get a repeal measure placed on the ballot but were unable to secure enough signatures. Deadline was Monday.
Prop 8 lawsuit is still pending.
April 14, 2010
Just watched Olbermann for the first time since his father died. He hasn’t changed. His venom is just as misogynistic, barry still walks on water and every nonbarryfan is a racist. He is still ranting about gotcha trivia. He is still fixated on Sarah Palin, who has absolutely no interest in running for president. And he still has to find 3 persons who he deems worse than him so he can make it through the day.
What did he learn about life after watching his parents die? About himself?
How can someone go through what he has and come out unchanged?
How can someone watch a parent suffer like his father did and not realize the power and importance of kindness?
April 14, 2010
Chun & Wm Shatner “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (video)
Hello LYC.
The only songs I’ve heard him sing (and could find) are I Will Always Love You, Amazing Grace and MJ’s “Black or White“. His singing isn’t very good in B or W, but his dance moves are.
Here’s his rendition of Whitney’s “Saving All My Love For You”.
actonish
April 14, 2010
CIA Director Leon Panetta announced Deputy Director Steve Kappes is retiring.
Reason: He hadn’t planned to stay long.
Successor: Present Director of Intelligence Michael Morell, 30-yr veteran.
Morrell’s successor: Fran Moore, present deputy director for intelligence.
What is his retirement really about?
April 14, 2010
updated
When are you going to realize you are the folks who started the anger in the country when you refused to vet barry?
When you attacked every single one of his opponents and left him alone.
When you refused to investigate John Edwards even though the story was out there before he entered a single primary.
When you ignored presidential candidate Governor Bill Richardson’s own pay-to-play scams and trashed Governor Rod Blagojevich who you didn’t even know and still don’t know.
When you refused to investigate barry, his campaign, Harry Reid and Dick Durbin’s involvement in barry’s senate seat appointment.
When you refused to cover Tony Rezko’s trial and completely ignored the fact that barry was named in the indictment.
When you said Hillary Clinton wasn’t qualified to become president because of her lack of understanding of foreign policy and lack of experience when she is now doing a job barry couldn’t even apply for.
When you daily told Hillary Clinton to get out of the race and attacked her as a person, as a politician, as a woman and as a mother.
When you continued to malign Hillary Clinton even as she campaigned for barry the wimp when he went on vacation.
When you ranted about the Bradley Effect that does not exist.
When you hid damaging information about barry (and continue to do so).
When you attacked every barry naysayer and labeled them racists.
When you didn’t call barry on his lie that “Kill him” was shouted when his very own Secret Service said it never happened.
When you never investigated your fellow alleged reporter, David Singleton, who made the bogus claim.
When you allowed Rep John Lewis to trash a man who fought for this country and survived 5 years as a POW.
When you pretended barry and Tim Geitner knew nothing about the AIG bonuses. Why didn’t you know?
When you let slide every lie and flipflop barry has made.
When you trashed Lou Dobbs.
And now when you continue your evil ranting about everything not beneficial to barry – even when it is true.
When you fawn like 11 y/o girls over a grown man you know nothing about.
When you trash the birthers.
When you trash the teabaggers.
When you trash Republicans.
When you refuse to ask real questions and press until they are answered.
When you refuse to ask for his birth certificate and continue to lie that he has posted it online.
When you refuse to name David Axelrod a lobbyist.
When you act like barry is the first president compared to AH.
When you continue to say barry is a great orator when the words are not his own (not even in his books) and he needs a teleprompter to deliver any type of remarks – even to his own staff – and takes 17 minutes to respond to a question that never gets answered.
When you refused to hold barry accountable for his sexist and disgusting remarks about Hillary Clinton or his “joke” about the Special Olympics.
Can you name one thing barry has apologized for? Ever?
Can you name one thing you have forced him to apologize for like you do all the other nonbarry politicians?
How long are you going to keep up the barrypropaganda?
You rant and rage about Bush and Cheney and Iraq and never once mention that had YOU done YOUR job then – there most likely would not have been an Iraq.
What will be the consequences — above and beyond the anger of The American People — of your refusal to vet the President of the United States?
Whatever they will be, will be entirely your fault. Absolutely 100% your fault.
You talk about inciting violence?
You’ve been doing it ever since barry announced his intention to run for an office he himslef had said he was not qualified for.
As for you second favorite target (behind Hillary Clinton), why the persistent fascination with Sarah Palin?
The reason folks like her is because of the way you trashed her and her family to help barry get elected. And they like the way she speaks without political correctness – they’re tired of your barryparsing.
What have you talked about more: Bristol Palin having a baby or Track Palin serving our country?
What does that say about you and your possible worth as a professional talking head?
Your mantra is Sarah Palin is a loser and unqualified to do anything, including being a mother, and in the next breath you call her a quitter for leaving Alaskans “high and dry”.
Can’t have both.
If she is not capable of doing anything – then Alaskans should be better off without her.
Kind of sums up your mesmerized idiocy.
Why don’t you just admit you have never gotten over the fact more people turned in to see her speak at the Convention than did to hear your messiah?
The populist anger is being fueled by you. It’s undeniable. I just haven’t figured out if you are doing it intentionally. If so, any and every outbreak of violence will have your blessing.
You ask what folks mean by getting their country back?
It means a free press – not state run media.
It means a goverment that is held accountable by the media.
It means a media that actual investigates and tells the truth as it actually exists.
Honest, non-biased reporting based on fact (not biased “factcheckers”) died when Walter Cronkite retired. All that is left is tabloid “journalism” based on unnamed sources.
Is covering for a president you know nothing about who hasn’t a clue how to govern or even conduct himself on the world stage what you dreamt about doing when you grew up?
If so, you are wildly successful.
Don’t blame anyone else when you lose your job – you have proven yourselves incapable of it.
April 13, 2010
POTUS will travel to Poland. The State funeral for the President and First Lady of Poland will take place on Saturday in Warsaw, followed by burial in Krakow’s Wawel Castle on Sunday.
On Saturday evening, the President will travel to Krakow, Poland to attend the State Funeral of President Lech Kaczynski and First Lady Maria Kaczynska on Sunday, April 18th. The President will travel to Krakow to express the depth of our condolences to an important and trusted ally, and our support for the Polish people, on behalf of the American people.
This one act will directly affect Chicago more than anything he has yet done, as Chicago has the largest Polish community in the world outside Poland. And perhaps it will atone for his dis of the Polish press just prior to his election.
Pope John Paul II, the first Polish pontiff, was only the second Pope to visit the US, the first to visit the White House and the first ever to visit Chicago. Chicago at that time was the largest Catholic archdiocese in the US. He arrived as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla in 1969 and 1976 and returned in 1979 as Pope John Paul II. In Grant Park (where barry had his victory celebration), he celebrated the largest Mass ever in Chicago, attended by 1.2M.
He also traveled down Milwaukee Avenue in a white limo, standing with his upper body out of the sunroof, waving and blessing the bystanders. Hard to believe now. There was no security of any sort. It was a singular experience to stand surrounded by Poles in rapture at the sight of their countryman, the Pope.
Saturday, Poles once again traveled down Milwaukee Avenue, this time in mourning, just like in 2005 when the Pope died.
Beginning at Chopin Park, a procession made its way to St Hyacinth’s Basilica where Mass was celebrated in Polish. Pope John Paul II had visited St Hyacinth’s as Cardinal and a bronze statue of him as Pope stands in the Memorial Garden next door.
Names of all those who perished in the plane crash were read, including that of fellow parishioner, sculptor Wojciech Seweryn, who had dedicated most of his adult life to remembering the Katyn Massacre, in which his own father was murdered. A father who had “held him in a Polish hospital the day he was born and then never saw him again”.
Seweryn (70) led the construction of the Katyn Massacre Memorial dedicated last year at St Adalbert’s Cemetery, attended by President Kaczynski, and his trip to Russia to commemorate the 70th Anniversary was to be the culmination of his life’s work.
Seweryn’s initial plan was to travel via train, but was offered the honor of traveling with the President via plane. It’s hard to fathom. His daughter, Anna Wojtowicz, said the night before he died, which he spent dining with the President and other dignitaries, was “the best of his life”. His wife had accompanied him to Poland but was not on the flight because she was feeling ill.
President Kaczynski was expected to attend the Polish Constitution Day Parade here on May 1.
Katyn Massacre Memorial – St Adalbert’s Cemetery
Virgin Mary holding a dying Polish soldier who was shot in the head.
April 13, 2010
On Carly Fiorino’s demon sheep ad post – ad for opponent Barbara Boxer. Don’t know if it’s still there because once you see it, you don’t see it again.
Great ad to have on a site that is not affiliated with anything or anyone, especially politicans.
April 13, 2010
Even funnier than the first video featuring Orly Taitz & Phil Berg. Ranks up there with Carly Fiorino’s Demon Sheep ad.
Didn’t know anything about Dracula or Hayworth being one of the dumbest members of Congress.
If you’re not familiar:
Chris Matthews (video/text)
Horse marrying (video/text)
Hayworth – AZ birther bill (video/text)
Campbell Brown – not concerned about “some esoteric argument about birth certificates and eligibility” – it’s an identity theft issue (video/text)
April 12, 2010
COCO:
In 3 months I’ve gone from network television to Twitter to performing live in theaters and now I’m heading to basic cable. My plan is working perfectly.
TBS not FOX
“Multi-year” deal
Sometime in November
Mon-Thur 11pm EST (60 mins)
Shifting “Lopez Tonight” to 12.
George Lopez (show started in Nov) got bumped faster than Coco.
COCO’s tweet:
The good news: I will be doing a show on TBS starting in November! The bad news: I’ll be playing Rudy on the all new Cosby Show.
I can’t think of anything better than doing my show with Conan as my lead-in. It’s the beginning of a new era in late-night comedy.
He sure is hoping so.
It means Coco will be matched up against Jay, Dave, Stewart and Colbert. The ratings will tell the story just like they did before. It sure didn’t take long for Jay to beat Dave.
Tina Fey got her jab in at Jay while she was playing Sarah Palin on SNL this weekend.
April 12, 2010
No matter the job title – there is always someone floating Hillary Clinton’s name out there.
How many other politicians can you say that about??
Certainly not barry.
Sens Orrin Hatch (R-UT) & Patrick Leahy (D-VT) of the Senate Judicial Committee appeared on “Today” and Hatch brought up the possibility of Secretary Clinton as the new Justice. As crazy as it is – imagine the Republicans trying to filibuster the acting Secy of State.
HATCH:
I even heard the name Hillary Clinton today. That would be an interesting person in the mix.
MATT LAUER:
Senator Hatch, you just mentioned Secretary Clinton, in your opinion. would she be qualified?
HATCH:
I’m not going to judge anyone right now. I happen to like Hillary Clinton. I think she’s done a good job for the Democrat secretary of state’s position. And I have a high respect and think a great deal of her, but I’m not going to pre-judge that. We’d have to look at it and be very fair about it.
Mr misogynist should have his lips burned off with this hypocritical comment. If you recall he went on VT public radio to tell “Hillary” she should just quit already.
LEAHY:
I think she’s done a good job for the country – not just the Democrats. She’s done it for the whole country.
When he wanted her to leave little barrywimp alone, Leahy said:
Frankly, I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate.
Now she’s transcended the senate and he’s still doing barry’s bidding.
HATCH:
I think so too.
Matt ends the lovefest.
Here’s GIBBS listen to his parsing:
We appreciate Sen. Hatch’s addition. I think the president has identified in Secretary Clinton a capacity in which he thinks she’s doing a wonderful job. The president is going to keep her as his Secretary of State.
April 12, 2010
The Ricketts family actually stood at the entrances greeting Cubfans.
Cubs chariman TOM RICKETTS:
“Hope we get alot of feedback” – ambassadors in the park – “we want to keep listening”.
His essay for business school – his dream job was the owner of the Cubs.
Dream come true?
There aren’t words to describe how great it is to be here and how excited we are about this day and this whole season.
Improved clubhouse – “nice shout out to the guys”.
Practicing for the 7th inning stretch?
Only for about twenty years – there’s no talent involved – we’ll make it.
They did great.
Now that he knows the players personally it’s hard to seem them struggle.
We certainly never dreamed 25 years ago that we would have an opportunity to be a part of this organization, and it’s just a fantastic experience. We walked out onto the field this morning as the sun was coming up and were like, ‘Wow, we’re not going to get in trouble for this.’
GM Jim Hendry
[Ricketts] are very committed to giving the players the best environment to succeed.
April 12, 2010
Alta, Utah
hellibenalli
April 3, 2010
updated
From CNN
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday that the President checked the box labeled “Black, African Am., or Negro” when asked his race.
Like many Americans, Obama – the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas – could have selected multiple races, but there is no check box for Americans that consider themselves multi-racial.
1-barry is biracial – not multi-racial.
2-There is a perfectly clear designation for multi-racial (below).
Imagine the reaction if there was just a single box “multi-racial”?
One box fits all non-whites?
NY Times story on how folks are getting DNA testing to obtain scholarships.
Not so if there was just a single multi-racial box.
The census form is politically correct like everything else. It says “MARK ONE OR MORE BOXES” and one can check as many as one likes as well as write whatever in.
Multi-boxes = multi-racial.
["K" is there because it's a sample form]
The curiousness: why was “American” abbreviated in “African Am.”?
There are only 3 races: Caucasian, Negroid, Mongoloid.
Which are then divided into ethnic groups based on culture, language and religion.
It’s not according to country or continent.
‘Europe’ ≠ ‘Caucasoid’.
‘Asia’ ≠ ‘Mongoloid’.
‘Africa’ ≠ ‘Negroid’.
Not all ‘Africans’ are Negroid.
Not all ‘African-Americans’ are black.
‘Hispanic’ is also defined.
Bottomline: There was no reason why he couldn’t have checked “White”.
He simply chose not to.
(Official WH/Pete Souza)
He sat down and made a conscious choice to completely obliterate the typical white people who raised him when his alleged African “father” abandoned him. The family without which he would not be sitting in the WH. The other half of the DNA provided nothing more than a check box to help get there.
And before y’all get crazy, stop for one moment and imagine if he checked off only “White”?
What would be the outrage then?
And the outrage if barry called the father who abandoned him a “typical black person”?
barry’s DNA – as his present story goes – is just as much Caucasian as it is Negroid. That means he is biracial. 50-50.
And yet he checked off only one box – completely denying the existence of the typical white people who actually raised him. And that’s what’s fueling some of the “populist” rage. Cue stock footage of angry whiteys. And when they bring it up they’re called racists.
“You’re a racist!” was a discussed out in the open campaign strategy that they’ve never stopped using.
And barry making a big production about the box he checked was simple political expedience directed at the summit goers who criticized him for not paying enough attention to the “black agenda”.
But no matter what box he checked – no matter how he hates his mother’s race – no matter how he disrespected the typical white person grandmother who raised a biracial child in the 60s – nothing can erase the fact that his daughters are 1/4 Caucasian.
And nothing can ever change the fact that he was descended from American slave owners – not American slaves.
April 12, 2010
Tina Fey, with an updated wardrobe, reprises her role as Sarah Palin…with a curious dig at Jay Leno.
“Sarah Palin Network”
Ever since I won the silver medal in last year’s vice presidIential election…
Tea Party Wheel of Fortune
Are You Smarter than a Half-Term Governor?
Alaskanence
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
30 Main Street
And others.
April 11, 2010
How many other folks can say the same thing?
John Cole / The Scranton (PA) Times Politicalcartoons.com
Do you really believe this?
Jeff Parker / Florida Today, Politicalcartoons.com
Have any of his other flipflops caused him any trouble.
April 11, 2010
What else.
PAT: I’m having a bad hair day, Ron.
RON: You have hair – it’s a good day.
April 9, 2010
Rasmussen
April 5, 500 likely Illinois voters, ± 4/5
Rep Mark Kirk 41
Alexi Giannoulias 37
Undecided 13
Other 8
Independents prefer Kirk 4 to 1
Favor HC repeal
Yes 51 (strongly 42 -> Kirk 71)
No 44 (strongly 37 – >Alexi 65)
Kirk
Very favorable 17
Very unfavorable 17
Not sure 19
Giannoulias
Very favorable 8
Very unfavorable 21
Not sure 13
Gov Pat Quinn 38
Bill Brady 45
POTUS approval
Approval 58 (strongly 38)
Disapprove 41 (strongly 35)
April 12, 2010
Most recent high -7 (Apr 5)
Strongly disapprove 42
Strongly approve 31
Disapprove 51
At least somewhat approve 48
Hey Jacqui.
Glenn Beck from central casting goes after FLOTUS’ comments about barry’s home country being Kenya.
His first tantrum: HIV/AIDS – homophobia comment. He totally misses the mark because he has no idea who she was speaking to.
Second tantrum: Kenya being barry’s home country. Again misses the mark because of the assumption of who her audience was.
Brings up poll numbers to prove the majority of Americans believe barry was born in the US (hard to believe the numbers he quoted) and ignores the crux of the issue: Why should it be a question at all.
Discusses why the tape was just now surfacing – concluded it’s because they want to paint folks as crazy – all the while acting crazy himself.
When he finds out it was June 2008 – when the issue was just being raised in earnest and that worthless COLB was posted he paused and then caught himself.
April 6, 2010
Birth certificate posts
Glenn Beck comments (video)
Here you go, Jacqui.
Apologies for taking so long to post it. I was trying to find the full text/video of her remarks but no luck. Not sure how these things just pop up – evidently it was posted on January 2, 2009. I’m still working on his medical history and census posts.
LGBT Delegate Luncheon
She’s reading the script so it’s no mistake.
missedeniane
(0:40) Barack has led by example. When we took a trip to Africa and visited his home country in Kenya, we took a public HIV test.
Never revealed the results. That’s where the true shame lies – not taking a blood test in public.
What I found more interesting were her other comments:
But Barack also reminded on that day that we also know what the world should look like.
He has not let me down once. [a lie of course.]
He has spent his entire life trying to build a career based on that struggle to narrow the gaps.
He uses his God-given talents to move that bar.
And how is Kenya his home country when no Hawaii-verified proof has been offered that barry Sr was indeed his father?
When Neil Abercrombie said barry Sr never asked about barry jr?
To Abercrombie’s surprise, Obama never asked about his ex-wife or his son.
When barry Sr himself neglected to mention a wife and child in a newspaper article?
I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms when I was in high school…It made no mention of my mother or me.
Neither of Dr Fukino’s statements mention the name of barry’s father and she never mentions that ridiculous COLB barry claims is a “certified copy of his birth certificate”.
And then there’s Janice Okubo who mentioned “bride”and “groom” not “mother” and “father”.
And there’s barry himself (Ayers) who wrote that only his brother Mark had proof that the ‘old man’ (barry sr) was his father.
Unlike my mom, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark’s father was.
I think it’s the most damning thing he has said or written. Especially when he admitted he had possession of his birth certificate.
If barry Sr was listed as “Father” on his birth certificate – what more would he need for proof?
April 11, 2010
Look carefully at each of the symbols he included.
Daryl Cagle / MSNBC.com, Politicalcartoons.com
March 30, 2010
Took a while to post but I found the body language in this pix interesting.
What do you see?
Justices L-R
Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor
Kennedy, Stephens, Roberts, Scalia, Thomas
April 11, 2010
Tiger’s promise to be “more respectful of the game” and to “tone down my negative outbursts” lasted 42 holes.
6th tee
LoblawEsq
After hitting his shot:
Tiger Woods, you SUCK! God dammit!
Verne Lundquist’s response was even funnier:
I don’t think he’s pleased.
Have there been any more plane banners flying overhead?
April 11, 2010
Faheed Zakaria GPS
Concerning barry.
ZAKARIA:
Is he on a new trend upwards?
TIME editor RICHIE STENGEL:
Two weeks ago he was Jimmy Carter and now he seems to be Superman!
….]
I think he feels the wind at his back, he feels re-vitalized. That’s not being showed in the polls. There hasn’t really been a bump. But I think they feel like they’ve turned the corner.
April 11, 2010
CUBS $52.56
RED SOX $52.32
YANKEES $51.83
Cheapest
DIAMONDBACKS $14.31
April 10, 2010
And to Polish people everywhere, especially here in Chicago:
Condolences on the sudden unexpected loss of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria, and everyone else on the plane. I hope and pray it was nothing other than a catastrophic accident.
updated
April 9, 2010
A little local advice from LA Governor Bobby Jindal at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans.
A word of warning to RNC staffers – you may just want to stay away from Bourbon Street – just a word of advice.
April 10, 2010
Citizens Against ProObama Media Bias
