Linkaround 4-7-2010

ObamaCare:

CBS News: CRS: Health Law May Allow Viagra Coverage for Sex Offenders. "The Congressional Research Service confirmed in a memo Wednesday that rapists and sex offenders may get federally subsidized Viagra and other sexual performance enhancing drugs under the recently passed health care reform law — information that Republicans charge will haunt Democrats in upcoming elections." Ya think?
HotAir: NYT: O-Care is really No-Care
McClatchy: Health care overhaul spawns mass confusion for public. Dude - where's my healthcare?
American Power: ObamaCare Confusion

al Reuters: Florida says challenge to healthcare reform widens. 5 more states join the cause.
HotAir: The sunshine federalism of Lori Swanson. A tale of 2 Swansons.

War on terror:

FoxNews: Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document. But not tea party, anti-abortion, etc.
AP: Iran ridicules Obama's “cowboy” nuclear strategy. "'Wait until your sweat dries and get some experience'... 'He is an amateur'..."
American Power: WikiLeaks Update: How the Leftist Media Massacres Truth and Helps America's Enemies

It's the economy, stupid!:

American Thinker: Laff It Up, Tax-Lovers. "The national debt problem has become so apparent that it is recognized even in San Francisco now. Would raising taxes help?"
Yahoo! News: Nearly half of US households escape fed income tax. But they sure take advantage of the services!
Fausta's Blog: How many trees died for the eggs? and a roundup
The Troglopundit: If you believe that large (25+ employees) companies are bad for America, then this is a great policy.

Just Michigan:

WaPo: General Motors posts $4.3B loss. And they're going to pay taxpayers back... how?
al Reuters: Volcker: Taxes likely to rise eventually to tame deficit. The deficit that these same hacks have created btw.
Gateway Pundit: Report: Lib Rep. Bart Stupak Considering Retirement. He's a goner this November no matter what.
Drinking With Bob: Not happy about Spirit Airlines charging for carryons:

Link Search: IceRocket, Google, and Ask

Link Search: IceRocket, Google, and Ask

The Oakland Press: WITH VIDEO: Some OU students advocate carrying guns on campus
Macomb Daily: VIDEO: Some Oakland University students advocate carrying guns on campus
The Oakland Press: Son of Powerhouse Gym co-founder arrested on murder, torture charges

Elections:

Politico: Stormy Daniels Switches Teams. "Stormy Daniels, the former porn star who has been debating whether to run for Senate in Louisiana for what seems like decades, says she’ll make her decision April 15. More important, she announced Tuesday that if she does run — because apparently she hasn’t had enough time to ponder that decision — she’ll do it as a Republican." Dude.
Dick Morris: GOP Will Win House and Senate
The Hill: Specter claims Reid deal for Judiciary chair. Benedict Arlen won't get that chance.
Adrienne's Corner: Angela McGlowan w/ Updates
Gateway Pundit: Harry Reid Won’t Announce Stops On Bus Tour Out of Fear of Protesters. Profiles in courage...
Paco Enterprises: Today's Demotivational Democrats

Media matters:

Doug Ross: Cleverly-edited video becomes anti-Military infomercial for world's dumbest blogger and his traditional posse of useful idiots
Rasmussen: 55% Say Media Bias Bigger Problem in Politics Than Big Contributions. 45% don't listen to the media at all.
HotAir: What CNN saw at the Tea Party. "Diversity, kindness, and activism."
Doug Ross: Welcome to Caracas: White House Blasts Edmunds.com for Criticizing Cash-for-Clunkers Program... Again
Pundit & Pundette: Tea time
The Other McCain: Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity and . . . The Other McCain!
Sundries Shack: My Podcast Now Comes “From the Right”

Miscellaneous:

NPR: Supreme Court May Soon Lack Protestant Justices. The bigger problem is they lack justices that uphold the Constitution.
Ace of Spades: Leahy: Hell No, I Won't Delay Liu's Hearing To Give Senators Time To Examine the Record That Liu Deliberately Hid From Us
via Ace of Spades: Slo-mo Inside View of a 4-Stroke Engine

 

American Thinker: The Rape of America. "Let's start by analyzing the mind of a rapist."
John Hawkins: What Exactly Makes Barack Obama Cool? All The Falling? The Nose Picking?
Big Government: Reason.tv: 21: Is it Time to Lower the Drinking Age?

Just for laughs:

Funny or die: Sense of smell

FailBlog: Double Skateboard FAIL

Cheez Burger: Doggy Attacks Own Shadow 

College Humor: Jake and David Try To Impress SI Swimsuit Models

Video: Rush Limbaugh caller's awesome call to action, "They're coming after my way of life"

Rush was right about this called - she was extremely well spoken:

HT: BreitbartTV. My guess is, she didn't use a teleprompter either. Unlike others:

Video: Sebelius Says ObamaCare Lawsuits Are About GOP Careers Not Constitution, Constitutional Law Professors Disagree

The tax-cheating, Senate confirmation lying Cryptkeeper speaks: (via BreitbartTV via Gateway Pundit):

Prominant law professors beg to differ with such an assessment. From The Macomb Daily: Law prof: Obamacare vulnerable to lawsuits

A prominent constitutional law professor said Tuesday that Attorney General Mike Cox's challenge of federal health care reform is based on substantial legal issues and those who dismiss the effort are "uninformed and incorrect."

Randy Barnett, a professor of legal theory at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., said the health care bill signed into law by President Obama can be challenged based on its mandate that all uninsured individuals must purchase an insurance policy. In addition, its threat to eliminate all Medicaid funds for states that don't cooperate with the new system could be declared an abuse of federal authority.

"These claims are highly plausible. Whether they are ultimately successful at the Supreme Court is very hard to predict," Barnett said.

Cox is one of 14 state attorneys general who have joined in a lawsuit originated in Florida that claims the new law violates states' sovereignty. In a conference call with several Michigan reporters, arranged by Cox, Barnett said the health care bill's requirement to purchase insurance or face a federal fine is unprecedented.

"This is a claim of power by the federal government that has never been made before," he said. "It goes beyond any claims that the Supreme Court has dealt with."

The U.S. Constitution's commerce clause, he said, has never been applied to an economic "inactivity" by citizens — forcing them to purchase a product.

The commerce clause of the US Constitution (in Article 1 Section 8) allows the federal government to regulate commerce across state lines. However, in the case of ObamaCare, the commerce is intrastate as the feds don't allow healthcare insurance companies to operate across state lines, and even in that case it is a lack of commerce (ie -people not buying insurance versus commerce). Thus the commerce clause argument for allowing ObamaCare falls flat on its face.

In addition, the professor said that the federal threat to withdraw billions of dollars in Medicaid funding to states that fail to comply could be interpreted by the high court as "commandeering" of states' authority, as the attorneys general claim.

In the past, Washington has vowed to reduce highway funding by a relatively small amount to states that refused to comply with a mandated speed limit law or balked at raising their legal drinking age to 21. But threatening to cut off all Medicaid funding could be viewed as an unreasonably "coercive" act of Congress by the Supreme Court justices.

I've heard one other prominent judicial expert point out the obvious "commandeering" argument against ObamaCare, judge Andrew Napolitano:

Previously on Sebelius:
HHS Sec Sebelius on taxpayer funded abortion: no such funding in Senate Bill. Sebelius is 2009: abortion funding is in the Senate bill
Video: Benedict Arlen And Sebilius BOOED In Pennsylvania
Cryptkeeper Sebelius Still Lying to the Senate About Tiller Donations
Cryptkeeper Telling Fibs to the Senate
Obama's Cryptkeeper has Tax Problems Too
NYU Teacher: George "Baby Killer" Tiller = MLK Jr!
MSNBC Kook Matthews: Will Sebelius Survive 'Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion People?'
Physicians: Obama's plan will 'shut down hospitals'
Cryptkeeper Being Held Up For HHS Post
Bobby Jindal vs. Bobby Jindal vs. The Cryptkeeper

Pharmacist charged with 1st degree murder for forced abortion on girlfriend. Uh - how are other abortions any different?

So a Pennsylvania pharmacist gets his jollies off but gets his girlfriend pregnant. The new dad doesn't want to raise his child, so he tells the girlfriend to get an abortion. She concedes but changes her mind and leaves the butcher shop sans said abortion. What to do? Well, if you happen to be a pharmacist with a seared conscience, you administer drugs to your pregnant girlfriend that forces a miscarriage and thus kills your child. The pharmacist is now charged with premeditated murder of his 13-week old child. Thus begs the question - how is any other abortion not murder? From StarGazette via Liberty Pundit via Linkiest: Pharmacist charged after he allegedly forces girlfriend to miscarry

Sayre police on Wednesday charged Orbin Eeli Tercero, 38, with criminal homicide of an unborn child, first-degree murder of an unborn child, aggra vated assault of an unborn child, aggravated assault, hindering apprehension or prosecution, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence.

...The charges are based on the following events, according to police:

The victim, a 36-year-old woman from Sayre and a pharmacist at a Wegmans Market, said she had a two-year physical relationship with Tercero, also a Wegmans pharmacist.

Tercero was engaged to another woman at the time.

The victim, whose name is being withheld by this newspaper, told Tercero she was pregnant in mid-January.

Tercero told the woman he could use the drug misoprostol to induce a miscarriage. The victim told Tercero she would get an abortion instead.

The victim, however, made a Feb. 24 appointment for an abortion but changed her mind. She called Tercero to tell him she would keep the baby.

In late February, on the victim's birthday, Tercero visited her at home and used misoprostol he allegedly stole from Wegmans pharmacy to cause the miscarriage.

Without her knowing it, Tercero put one pill in her vagina, one in her juice and one in her water. She was 13 weeks pregnant at the time.

When the victim began to miscarry, she found a partially dissolved misoprostol tablet among the discharge.

Thus the logical question: what is the difference between an abortion with the moms consent and one without it? Either way, the baby meets in end by getting thrown into the equivalent of a wood chipper. Would the consent of a mother make the killing of a 1-year old toddler legal? If not, then why not? What's the difference between abortion and infanticide? Logic and reason give an answer: nothing.

Audio of Michael Savage: Power Hungry Nancy Pelosi Steamrolling the Constitution

Pelosi is power mad. Unfortunately she is the norm in Congress, not the exception:

Video of Chris Matthews: Obama & Left-Wing Bloggers Are Failing to Sell ‘Social State’

The statists are upset that the American public is eating up socialism like they do apple pie. As usual, they are claiming that it is not the policy, but rather that it's not being articulated correctly:

Here's the thing, though - it's already an experiment that has been explicitly tried here and was a proven failure. From a prio post of mine back in November 2009: The First Thanksgiving Proved Socialism A Failure. This is an excerpt from pngusa and is found throughout the internet:

On August 1, 1620, a ship called the "Mayflower" left England with 102 passengers bound for the New World. The manifest included two groups. The Separatists, led by William Bradford, had fled their homeland and the oppressive Church of England under King James I in search of a home where they could live and worship God according to their own conscience. The Strangers sought the New World for other reasons. Together they formed the Pilgrims.

Their intended crossing to Virginia strayed off course, and they instead landed on Cape Cod -- outside the territory covered by the King's Charter. Thus, the Pilgrims were responsible for their own governance. Following the nine-week journey, the Pilgrims composed an agreement that would establish just and equal laws for all members of the new community. Indeed, the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact were derived from none other than the Holy Bible.

Only then, on November 11, 1620, did the Pilgrims leave the Mayflower. A cold and barren wilderness awaited them. There were no friends to greet them, no houses to shelter them, nor stores of food to sustain them. That first winter was perilous, as half the Pilgrims died of starvation, sickness, or exposure.

When spring arrived, an Indian named Squanto taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish, use fertilizer, and stalk deer. Bradford wrote that Squanto was "a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectations."

In October, following their first harvest, Governor Bradford set aside a day of thanksgiving. Squanto, his chief Massasoit, and other members of the tribe were invited to the thanksgiving feast. The Indians brought deer and turkeys, while the Pilgrim women cooked vegetables and fruit pies. The purpose of the feast was not to give thanks to the Indians or Mother Earth, as contemporary history textbooks commonly report, but as a devout expression of gratitude to God.

What modern history texts also omit is that the contract the Pilgrims brokered with their merchant-sponsors in London specified that everything they produce go into a common store, with each member entitled to one common share. In addition, all the land they cleared and the structures they built belonged to the community.

William Bradford, Governor of the new colony, realized the futility of collectivism and abandoned the practice. Instead, Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family and permitted them to market their own crops and other products, thereby unleashing the power of free enterprise. What Bradford had wisely realized was that these industrious people had no reason to work any harder than anyone else without the motivation of personal incentive.

Thus, what can only be called the Pilgrims' attempt at socialism ended like all other attempts at socialism -- in failure. What Bradford subsequently wrote about the experiment should be in every American history textbook. The lesson provided therein is invaluable.

"The experience that was had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanity of that conceit of Plato's and other ancients applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing; as if they were wiser than God. For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without any recompense."

And what happened after collectivism was replaced by capitalism and the concept of private property?

"This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content."

The Pilgrims soon found they had more food than they could eat, so they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits they realized allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. The success and prosperity of the original Plymouth settlement attracted more European settlers, setting off what came to be known as the "Great Puritan Migration."

Three hundred and eighty-two years later, Americans still set aside the fourth Thursday in November each year as a celebration of thanksgiving. Although this quintessentially American holiday has become more secular than religious, it was originated by devoutly Christian people who were expressing gratitude for the bounty brought forth by their labor and the blessings bestowed upon them by God.

It's been 389 years now since the landing, and 388 since the first Thanksgiving. It is one of the greatest history lessons in what forms of government work, and what does not. It is a shame our current leaders haven't learned the lessons from the earliest history of the United States. They haven't learned that socialism is a dismal failure - always is and always has been - and that to flourish, we as a people need to continually acknowledge God. 2 lessons that modern liberals loath. You can read other excerpts and takes on the history of the pilgrims and Thanksgiving at these links:

• The Real Story of Thanksgiving
• The Founders Constitution - William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 120--21
• How the Pilgrims progressed 
• WND - How the Pilgrims progressed

Plenty more throughout the web. HT: BreitbartTV for the video.

Previously on Matthews:
Chris Matthews Melts Down Over Rush Limbaugh Calling Obama Admin A "Regime," But Called Bush Admin A "Regime" In 2002 (With Video)
Video: MSNBC's Chris Matthews Compares Conservative Republicans to Murderous Khmer Rouge Regim
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Obama SOTU: “I Forgot He Was Black Tonight For an Hour”
Pro-Abort MSNBC Anchor Chris Matthews Relates Election of Scott Brown To Premeditated Murder, Abortion Of ObamaCare
Video of Chris Matthews: Every single “teabagger” in America is white
Video: Chris Matthews refers to West Point as "enemy camp"
Palin Book Nears 1 Million Mark, Flashback: Chris Matthews: “Sarah Palin, NOW DON'T LAUGH, is writing a book." Calls book "Embarrassment"
Video: Pro-Abort Catholic Chris Matthews Ambushes Bishop Tobin On Abortion And Law
Video: Chris Matthews: "The Group That Most Resembles The Taliban In This Country Is The religious Right"
Video of Chris Matthews: Palin Supporters Racist — ‘White vs. Other People’
Video: Kook Chris Matthews: America's Mood Is Like Dallas in 1963 or Something
Video of Chris Matthews on Cheney: “What G** D*mn Award Are They Giving These Guys?”
Video: Chris Matthews Baits A Texas Tea Partier. Fails Epically.
Video: Chris Matthews: 'I want to watch Rush Limbaugh's head explode from injection of compressed greenhouse gas'
Video: Chris Matthews: Criticizing Michelle Obama Having 26 Aides is Racist
Chris Matthews: “Sarah Palin, NOW DON'T LAUGH, is writing a book." Calls book "Embarrassment"
Chris Matthews is a Raging Sexist; Feminists Yawn...
Media Research Center "Quote of the Year" Dishonor
MSNBC Kook Matthews: Will Sebelius Survive 'Terrorism of the Anti-Abortion People?'
Chris Matthews: Palin’s book will do well “if she can read”

Video: Arianna Huffington Attempts Character Assassination On Air, Epic Fail Ensues

The modus operindi of elitist liberals who can't win a debate on the facts is character assassination. This is why liberals and their sycophantic suck-ups in the MSM are trying their best to paint the tea party movement as racist, sans any evidence whatsoever. Arianna Huffington recently went on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and immediately went into character assassination mode on Rudy Giulian, but ended up being humiliated by  Scarborough, Rudy, and other guest Mort Zuckerman. The fail was epic (via NewsBusters via memeorandum):

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

NewsBusters has the transcript but this summary will suffice for most:

As the subject of Florida's Senate race was broached, Huffington decided to attack the former Mayor of New York City rather than address the qualifications of Republican candidates Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio.

"Your judgment in people has not been stellar -- Bernard Kerik, anybody, so the fact that you're supporting Rubio now, I don't know exactly how seriously we should take it," irrelevantly spouted the liberal publisher.

Marvelously, some of the gentlemen on the panel didn't appreciate the cheap shot including Giuliani himself who finally said, "I come on here just to talk about Marco Rubio, you're attacking me on Bernie Kerik, you're attacking me on how I ran my presidential race. I imagine you're going to attack me on what I did in the Little League when I was a child"

More from Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller, The Other McCain and HotAir 

Video of Charles Krauthammer: Obama's New Nuclear Policy "Is Either Insane or Ridiculous - I Can't Decide"

I would go with the insane. Ridiculous just doesn't quite cut it here. Roger Simon had a pretty strong word too - deranged (via Instapundit):

This is indeed astonishing. The President of the United States — whose most important duty is to protect the citizens of this country — is publicly abjuring the use of nuclear weapons if we are attacked by chemical or biological weapons — both of which are known to all of us as Weapons of Mass Destruction, the dreaded WMDs.

What are we to make of this and the man who is adopting this policy? Does he hate us? Does he hate this country? What would he do if there was, for example, a massive small pox attack on the U.S.? Send in the infantry? Call in the Marines? Try to reason with whoever did it and recommend they negotiate as the fatal disease spreads to millions of people?

Now I detest nuclear weapons as much as the next person, but this approach seems — I hate to repeat myself, but I will — deranged. It also has very little to do with actually reducing nuclear weapons in the world. Again, it seems like the act of an extreme narcissist, someone who wants to parade himself as anti-nuke while ignoring the checks and balances that have, in fact, kept nuclear weapons in their silos for decades.

Deterrence has worked. And now Obama wants to abandon or diminish it at the very moment Russia is modernizing their arsenal. What a strange person. President Weirdo, indeed. As I said in my previous post, “good luck to us.”

Ouch. Insty also has this: STEVE CHAPMAN ON Obama’s nuclear arms control agenda. And more from Steve Schippert. And in case anyone think of words like 'deranged' and 'insane' as being too critical, I'll just leave you with these words:

Detroit News: "President Barack Obama's election has inspired a record number of African-American candidates to run for Congress this year. What's surprising is that they're running as Republicans"

That from Chicago Tribune black liberal columnist Clarence Page in this article picked up by the News: African-American Republicans face long odds for seats in Congress

President Barack Obama's election has inspired a record number of African-American candidates to run for Congress this year. What's surprising is that they're running as Republicans.

That has to go down as one of my favorite all time quotes in the Detroit News.

Say what? Have Obama's approval ratings been that shaky? Not quite. At this point, we're talking about African-Americans who merely have thrown their hats in the ring for the Republican nomination in their districts. Political oddsmakers don't give many of them much of a chance to win.

That's not something I celebrate, since I believe, as many of these candidates do, that black voters would benefit from having both parties competing for black support, along with that of other Americans. But since the Grand Old Party's conservative turns in the 1960s and 1980s, many African-Americans don't feel they left the party of Abraham Lincoln as much as the party left them.

That's simply not true and intellectually dishonest. The GOP is still the party of limited government and personal freedom and liberty, something the Democrat party is against both in the distant past with slavery as well as today by shackling minorities to government dependency via welfare, failed public schools, etc. It is still the party of Abraham Lincoln while the Democrat Party is still the party of slavery. The one thing that changed dramatically in the 1960s was welfare which had the effect of destroying the black family by replacing the father with the government.

At latest count, 33 African-Americans are running for Republican nominations to Congress, according to the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a 2-year old organization founded by chairman Timothy F. Johnson, vice chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. That's the most black Republican congressional candidates since Reconstruction, the foundation's leaders believe.

Now you would think that liberals would be happy with  the development, no? The NAACP? Black Democrats? If you think that, you would be wrong on all accounts. From the AP via Instapundit, Breitbart: Black conservative tea party backers take heat. Check out how this one starts:

They've been called Oreos, traitors and Uncle Toms, and are used to having to defend their values. Now black conservatives are really taking heat for their involvement in the mostly white tea party movement—and for having the audacity to oppose the policies of the nation's first black president.

"I've been told I hate myself. I've been called an Uncle Tom. I've been told I'm a spook at the door," said Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a group of black conservatives who support free market principles and limited government.

If you want to know what true intolerance is, be a black conservative. It is liberals that are the most intolerant.

Johnson and other black conservatives say they were drawn to the tea party movement because of what they consider its commonsense fiscal values of controlled spending, less taxes and smaller government. The fact that they're black—or that most tea partyers are white—should have nothing to do with it, they say.

Couldn't have said that better myself, nor will I try. As I have said many times on this blog, it's not about race, but rather policy, and it is the latter that gave rise to the tea party movement, not the former. Yet, opponents have done their best to paint the tea party as racist even though I have reported from many tea parties and my pics included black people there. In fact, there are many black tea party participants that are simply ignored by the media. Incidentally, HotAir has probably the best headline along those lines: AP discovers that black tea party members exist. Black conservatives aren't anything new. The fact that the media are finally noticing is. Back in November, Glenn Beck had a special on black conservatives in America:

The mainstream left hates black conservatives almost as much as the media lynch mob. And make no mistake, it is the same kind of lynch mob that used to hang black people sans trial or even any semblance of due process. These days, people don't tend to get lynched from trees anymore. Instead, their character is lynched in the court of public opinion. Lives are ruined. It is especially done to black conservatives in prominent positions. Just ask this black man:

That's the way it's done these days to black conservatives.This is simply a form of slavery. That's right - slavery. Not to a plantation owner but to the state itself. The state sets certain rules and those that don't follow those rules - who veer off the chosen path - are vilified as Uncle Toms. It doesn't matter that the chosen path leads to misery and poverty. That's the whole point.

Keeping blacks down is a form of control that Democrats have become exceedingly efficient at. The same party that defended slavery, fought for it, segregated schools, filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964, came out later with welfare, good intentions on full displace, which has broken the black family and replaced the father with the government. Since that time, the poverty level has not changed on single bit. Then the victim mentality was installed by Democrats. Affirmative action separated people by their race. Us against them. Black versus white. Male versus female. Gay versus straight. The party of identity politics divides people and judges them by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character. Democrats have kept blacks down in the plantations of failed urban environments with failed public schools, doomed to continue voting for Democrats to get handouts that they have been convinced they are entitled to. And Democrats continue to to reap many votes from people's misery that they themselves have created.

More from Hot Air, Shot in the Dark, Another Black Conservative, Pundit & Pundette, Left Coast Rebel, Nice Deb, NewsBusters, The Rhetorican and The Lonely Conservative

More here:
Video: Alan Combs paints tea party protesters as racist
Leonard Pitts Jr: Tea Partiers are raaaaacist and need to go to the back of the bus
Heh: Dallas Tea Party Invites the White People of MSNBC
Breitbart to NY Times Reporter for Alleging Racial Tones at CPAC: 'You’re a Despicable Human Being,' 'These People have such a Patronizing Attitude Towards Black People in this Country, They Should be Ashamed of Themselves'
Flashback Video of Bryant Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Winter Olympics 'Look Like GOP Convention'
Good Grief: Calling Obama 'Professor' Now Raaaaacist!
NBC Cafeteria Celebrates Black History Month With Fried Chicken, Collard Greens
John Conyers (D) Wants Haiti Relief Official Demoted Because They Have Too Many White People On Staff
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Obama SOTU: “I Forgot He Was Black Tonight For an Hour”
Hope and Change? 68 percent of MI blacks said it would take 100 years, or never, before racial equality is achieved, compared to 63 percent in 2008
Today everyone should be reminded that Martin Luther King Jr. was a REPUBLICAN
Harry Reid racist flashback: Called Clarence Thomas an "embarrassment" and said Thomas's opinions are "poorly written"
Obama hypocrisy on racial comments: 2002: Remove Trent Lott. 2007: Fire Imus! 2010: Forgive Harry Reid "without question"
Bill Clinton on Obama: "A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Getting Us Coffee"
Harry Reid: Barack Obama is "light skinned" and "with no Negro dialect"
Change! Americans live in more segregation now then they did more than 40 years ago
Black man Dyron Hart sentenced to slap on wrist for white supremacist threats on Facebook
Video of Chris Matthews: Palin Supporters Racist — ‘White vs. Other People’
Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'
Irony: Civil Rights Groups Sue To End Ban On Racial Discrimination, Want Overturn Of MCRI
Video: Part 1 of Glenn Beck's special on black conservatives in America
Video: Example #986,203 That Black People Are Being Shackled And Enslaved By The Democrat Party Line
National Black Republican Association calls on Democrat Party to apologize for racism
Detroit Free Press Editorial After Ricci Decision: "Can Someone Please Tell Us How To Discriminate Against White People Now?"
After SCOTUS Ricci Decision, Colleges Wonder: "Now How Are We Going To Discriminate Against Asian People?"
Why Is Detroit, 81% Black, Still Using Affirmative Action Against Whites? Now Worried About SCOTUS Ricci Decision!
SCOTUS Ricci Decision Has Local Impact - MI white teacher with seniority layed off in favor of black teachers
The Senate Votes To Apologize For Slavery, Discrimination. In 100 Years, Will Senate Apologize For Affirmative Action?
African-American Student Suspended For Claiming To Be African-American
Cal School District Segregating Students By Race! Call it "Heritage Assemblies"
University of Delaware: "All Whites Are Racist"
Mandating Discrimination with Stimulus Funds
Monica Conyers: "Black people cannot be racist"

Video: Rosie O'Donnell Likens Catholic Church To Jonestown Cult

via The Radio Equalizer on YouTube:

Here's the irony in her comparison: she is a supporter of the late gay politician Harvey Milk. The irony? It's actually a double doozy. 1) Harvey Milk slept with underage boys making him a child predator, and perhaps even more ironically 2) Harvey Milk was a fervent supporter of Jim Jones of the actual Jonestown cult! California kids, however, are being indoctrinated with anyway with pro-Milk propaganda: All your child are belong to us: CA lawmakers to force schoolchildren to honor sexual predator, enabler of Jim Jones of cyanide kool-aid fame. Here's what Harvey Milk enabled:

Incidentally, moonbattery caught Rosie in a seperate incident of - well - moonbattery: All a Moonbat Needs to Know About Engineering in Under 1 Minute

Linkaround 4-6-2010

Just Michigan:

The Troglopundit: According to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, much of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is supposed to be part of Wisconsin.
Nolan Finley: Recovery could skip Michigan. What recovery???
Lansing State Journal: Michigan tea party activists turn up the heat. Darn straight!
The Oakland Press: Tea party activists tap into Michigan anti-tax spirit. It's not anti-tax, it's rather limited tax that comes with limited government.
Bay City Times: Wind in the water loses a battle in Cap Cod ... Michigan next? Funny that supposed pro-environment liberals are against wind turbines on their favorite vacation spots.
Related at the Detroit Free Press: Clean wind energy should be one of Michigan's priorities. This 'letter of the day' is so bereft of actual facts that I could write a thesis on it.
Cynical Synapse: Detroit Homicide Rate Down 25%. Then again, so is the population. 
Dewey from Detroit:  CAFE Curtains for Detroit
Lola Sez:  Schauer's Senior Forum in Jackson
motorcitytimes:  And People Wonder Why Detroit Is In The Condition It’s In

ObamaCare:

American Thinker: The Perfect Constitutional Storm. "What if anti-ObamaCare suits are filed by the states and aggrieved citizens? "
Reason: The Power to Regulate Commerce Across State Lines Is Also the Power … 
Potluck: Revisiting those dead sister’s teeth . Anecdotalitis.
Dan Riehl: ObamaCare: So Much For Keeping Your Existing Health Insurance
American Thinker: Does Anybody Really Understand ObamaCare? "Since the passage of the Health Care Reform Bill, the Democrat leadership has embarked on a strategy of demonizing its opponents as angry, potentially violent racists.  Charles M. Blow developed a new line of attack in his New York Times..." 

Miscellaneous:

powerline: A Dumb Policy on Nuclear Weapons: Does It Matter?
Sundries Shack: I Hope That Treaty Is Thick and Made of Lead. It’s Going to Need to Protect Us From A Lot
Ace of Spades: Obama Was Not Briefed on Nuclear-Defense Plans Until "Some Months" In Office. What the... ???
Ruby Slippers: Harry Reid: "Now that the legislation has passed, it's amazing how much different people's attitude is"
The Other McCain: Nevada Voters to Hopeless Harry Reid: ‘We’re Just Not That Into You’
HotAir: Video: Collateral murder, or the risks of war zones?

Adrienne's Corner: Obama and His Regime - Devoid of Class and Detached From Reality
Big Government: Who Is That Masked Man?: Tea Party Bus Driver Positively IDs Egg Throwing Culprit
Gateway Pundit: Federal Court: FCC Does Not Have Right to Regulate Net Neutrality
A Conservative Teacher: Only US State With Booming Economy: Texlahoma
Gallup: Americans Prioritize Energy Over Environment for First Time. The jig is up.

Don Surber: Worst protest of the day. The best if you're a single guy.
Doug Ross: Presidential Stand-Up Comedy: Okay, My New Plan to Create Jobs is to Throw Sand into the Private Sector's Transmission! Can I Get a Rimshot?
Bible, Math, Politics and More: Thoughts From the IRS Commissioner
William Teach: AP: Fiercer Storms Are AGW, Confirmed By Study By Climate Alarmists
via Ace of Spades: So How Has Our Diet Changed In The Last 100 Years?

Don Surber: Academic idiocy of the day. Abortions YES. Sex NO.
Nice Deb: Harry Reid Kicks Off Campaign Tour In Searchlight To A Crowd of Approximately 100
Paco Enterprises: Is Mexico on the verge of becoming a failed state?
American Power: Leftist Hack David Weigel Premieres at Washington Post

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moonbattery: Obama's Communist Mentor Raped a 13-Year-Old
Pundit & Pundette: Do you feel safer now? Nope.
John Hawkins: Meet Your Lords and Masters: Seven Democrats Who Run Your World
The Right Scoop: Boat on FIRE!  Sans George Costanza bowling people over to get out:

Just for laughs:

HotAir: Video: Do we need an O-Pad for iPad reform?

Moe Lane: Not seen: the cat’s blood-soaked revenge frenzy.

Smartest President Evah And Baseball Fan Still Doesn't Know Where Chicago White Sox Play And Can't Name A Single Player

Last July, I created a post where Obama got the former home of the White Sox wrong: Video: White Sox Fan Barack Obama Doesn't Know Where White Sox Play.  He calls himself a baseball fan, especially of the Chicago Whit Sox. But he gaffed when identifying where they play. the reason this is post-worthy is that the MSM would have been all over Bush had he made such a gaffe. Or Palin. or any other Republican. Here is the Obama interview with Bob Costas. The gaffe occurs at the 3:15 mark where Obama thinks the White Sox play at "Cominskey Field." (It's really Comiskey Park, but Cominskey rhymes with Alinsky so there's that):

Wasn't Barry hailed by all liberals as the smartest, brightest President in history? Again, can you imagine the cries of doofus had this been W? Speaking of the comparison between the two, it's worth pointing out that W can throw a baseball like a man, while Obama throws like a sissy girl, both last year and yesterday:Obama throws another opening day MLB sissy girl pitch, gets booed. The media have already ignored his physical coordination challenges that they lambasted Gerald Ford for, as I have pointed out with video here: Same MSM That Made Fun Of Gerald Ford Tripping Ignore Obama Doing Same (with video)

In any case, almost one full year later, he still apparently has Saul Alinsky on his brain as he again called Comiskey Park “Cominskey" Park, which I guess is an improvement over “Cominskey Field.” Here's the audio that also embrarrassingly shows him unable to name a single White Sox player:

Some fan...

Detroit Tries To Raze 3,000 Abandoned Homes, Fails After Demolition Stopped After First Home Due To Environmental Concerns!

Those running the city of Detroit are so incompetent that they can't even bulldoze an abandoned house without an epic fail. In essence, Detroit is incompetent at being incompetent. A total fail. Mayor David Bing, who I think is a sharp improvement in leadership compared to what Detroit had for a long time, promised that 10,000 dilapidated, abandoned buildings would be razed. 3,000 was a good start last week, but demolitian was halted by a single person before the first house was leveled because, of all things, environmental concerns. From The Detroit News: Detroit officials probe razing halt

City officials still were trying to determine what went wrong Friday, one day after a state inspector halted the demolition of the first house of a demolition blitz.

With Detroit, it's like the ending of any segment in Cops, "what'd I do? What'd I do?"

Detroit officials say the hiccup shouldn't halt efforts to raze 3,000 structures this year, but they're unsure whether the home on Lewerenz contained untreated asbestos. The rubble from the house remained Friday, as did worries among neighbors of exposure to the now-banned building material linked to cancer.

The only cancer in Detroit is the kind I refer to as Democrat hegemonic domination.

State officials only learned of the city's federally funded demolition blitz -- which Mayor Dave Bing touted in his State of the City speech last week -- through the media. The state said the city didn't file a required 10-day notice with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment over its plans to raze the house. Such a notice would include whether the house has asbestos.

"We didn't know about the project until we read about it in the paper," said Robert McCann, spokesman for the state agency.

State and city officials weren't sure Friday if the Lewerenz house had asbestos and, if so, whether it was properly removed. ...

I Don't know. Seems to be a perpetual cry of the Detroit bureaucrat. More from The Detroit Free Press: In rush to raze eyesores, a bungle by city officials

Detroit Mayor Dave Bing's plan to demolish 3,000 crumbling homes and buildings this year to improve city neighborhoods was abruptly halted Monday after a state agency accused the city of violating state and federal laws.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment said the city began demolition last week without testing for asbestos, a carcinogen commonly found in many older Detroit structures. The city also failed to notify the state of its demolition plans as required by federal law, which is another serious violation, said DNRE spokesman Robert McCann.

City officials said Monday that they unknowingly violated federal regulations because they were following the past administration's practice of demolishing structures without testing for asbestos. "When this was brought to our attention, we ceased immediately," said Carla Henderson, director of Buildings and Safety Engineering Department.

Uh - isn't this city officials' job to know such things? And they're pawning it off by saying they were litening to ... Kwame Kilpatrick??? The felon?

The halt to demolition work is a blow to Bing, who less than two weeks ago promised in his State of the City address to promptly raze crumbling houses in the first phase of a larger plan to demolish 10,000 structures over four years.

In interviews with the Free Press on Monday, city officials expressed embarrassment that work was abruptly shut down last week at a home in southwest Detroit, and said they had no idea they were violating state and federal regulations.

They blamed the foul-up on their decision to follow what they say was the practice of ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's administration of demolishing buildings without testing for asbestos or giving the state advance notice.

Again, that last part is just a sign of utter incompetence. Not mentioned in the articles regarding the most recent debacle is the fact that Detroit has been under Democrat hegemonic domination  for the past 50+ years.The situation that Detroit is in can't be pinned entirely on the politicians though. I pin much of the blame on the willfully ignorant electorate. With all the failed policies of the Democrat party, who do Detroit residents vote for? Democrats that have killed the hope in their hearts, that's who. By wide margins. In fact, Detroit is the most liberal city in the U.S. if one goes by voting record:

2008 General Election results-DEM: 96.93% GOP: 2.65%
2006 General Election results-DEM: 95.05% GOP: 4.33%
2004 General Election results-DEM: 93.61% GOP: 5.93%

The Stockholm Syndrome on a massive scale. And it's getting worse as the above numbers indicate.

Judge Napolitano: "Congress Spends More Time Avoiding And Evading The Constitution Than Upholding It"

And indeed it is true. The Constitution is now simply a stumbling block to what congresscritters want to do. They go through contortions that make a pretzel seem simple by comparison to argue, if in fact you can call it that, that their actions are constitutional. Here's Napolitano:

When asked about the constitutionality of ObamaCare, legislators had no answer. Many tried and fell flat on their faces. Some Democrats have given answers to such a challenge in a way that can only be labeled as 'stupid.' Some, like Sen. Merkley claim that two words - General Welfare - let them do whatever they want thus rendering the rest of the Constitution irrelevant. John Conyers claimed a nonexistent "good and welfare" clause, among other clauses he couldn't name. And then there was Phil Hare, who said“I don’t worry about the Constitution on this”. Of course he doesn't. Pelosi had a better answer: "are you serious?" That was it. Sen. Leahy says that nobody questions such authority (I beg to differ). Sen. Warner totally dodged the question by talking about telephones. Sen. Mary Landrieu dodged the question altogether instead referred the questioner to constitutional lawyers! Sen. Blanch Lincoln claimed that the U.S. Constitution charges Congress with "the health" of the people. Pro-life traitor Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska), who traded the lives of unborn babies for 30 pieces of silver, can't even answer that question before he was re-asked by CNS News. And Sen. Bob Casey is not sure if there's 'a specific Constitutional provision'. Don't you all feel much better now about the Constitutional competence of our lawmakers now? The White House, of course, claims no 'legitimate' constitutional concern. Obama himself said that he doesn't really care how things get done as long as they do. So who's left to defend our founding document? The courts. Unfortunately, the same politicians that have abdicated their oath to uphold the constitution have been appointing activist judges to do the same.

By the way, Napolitano above started his discussion with references to Clyburn. He had more on him in this video that I posted several times before (here and here). It's a must-see video, so I'm posting it again below:

John McCain: Maverick? Who, me?

Every episode of Cops has at least one obligatory arrest scene with a perp, after a high speed chase, doing the frog walk while exclaiming "what'd I do? What? Me? Me???" Well, that's basically John McCain now. From The Washington Post via memeorandum:

Arizona Sen. John McCain is trying to shake loose the mantle of the maverick brand he shared with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in 2008.

"I never considered myself a maverick," he told Newsweek. "I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities."

Palin, the magazine reports, apparently didn't get the message, and urged "fans four times in 15 minutes to send McCain the Maverick back to Washington" during a recent join appearance with the Republican officeholder at a fairground outside Tucson.

Here's a McCain campaign ad that the WaPo put up:

Here's another:

Of course he is doing this because of stiff competition from an actual conservative - J.D. Hayworth. Shameless. Just shameless. But what else do you expect from a RINO? The sooner he's primaried out, the better for the GOP.