Abortion Clinic Director Fakes Bomb Threat To Try Make Pro-Life Groups Appear Extremist, MSM Whitewash Ensues

It's ironic when those that murder innocent children try to make opponents look like violent extremists. The MSM whitewash of an abortion clinic director that claimed to have found a bomb at her facility is utterly laughable. Check out this headline over at the Amarillo Globe-News: Ex-leader of abortion clinic charged in bomb scare. You see, she's the ex-leader NOW, but was THE leader when the bomb scare surfaced. She left after she made the bomb claim, something that is the opposite of what is implied in the headline. When the scare surfaced, you know who was implicated in the press:

Some pro-life advocates said they believe Meek may have been trying to mislead authorities and the media, to portray abortion opponents as violent fanatics who will stop at nothing to end the practice.

Republican state Rep. Mike Ritze, who supports pro-life legislation, said the bomb scare is part of a growing trend among abortion activists to represent opponents as violent and dangerous in order to divert public scrutiny from themselves.

"Either she did it maliciously to harm the opposition or is trying to draw attention away from the abortion industry," said Ritze, a family practice physician in Broken Arrow.

Tony Lauinger, chairman of Oklahomans for Life and vice president of the National Right to Life Committee, said "there was an apparent rush to judgment" that pro-life proponents were behind the incident.

Planned Parenthood of Oklahoma City chief executive Anita Fream said she did not have enough facts on the bomb scare, but said it isn't the policy of abortion rights activists to make pro-life advocates appear violent or dangerous.

Of course it's not official written policy, just something in the back of their twisted minds to wrongly implicate those trying to save the lives of babies as violent extremists while these people fillet those same babies and flush them down the toilet with as much regard as feces. Patrick Archbold over at the Creative Minority Report says of the disgraced director of the butcher shop, "why is it amazing that somebody who kills babies for a living is a liar as well." It's not. The baby butchers have been caught on tape many times lying about what is occurring inside the womb. Since Planned Parenhood was mentioned in the article above, let me just point out that they encourage women to wait and have an abortion at a certain point in the pregnancy so that they can turn around and sell fetus bodyparts for a profit. They cover up statutory rape of little girls by adult men (more at this link) so they can have a repeat victim customer. They target minorities in line with their founder Margaret Sanger's eugenics push to rid the world of black people.  And they lie to women about their unborn babies to coax an abortion which is their #1 source of profit. Check out these videos that were taken undercover (Video: Yet another Planned Parenthood clinic caught lying to women to coerce abortions):

Here are the first two videos from the series:

Video of Obama Whining at Wisconsin Rally: "They Talk About Me Like a Dog"

As Jim Treacher said, “dogs are capable of learning.”

But then, there is this flashback: Video of Obama: Black people are a ‘MONGREL people’

Mongrel is a reference to mixed-breed, especially in dogs where the term 'mutt' is more often used. Ben Cunningham had this via Instapundit: “We don’t have a President, we have a paranoid, petulant child.”. And Ed Driscoll: “Something weird happens when presidencies go wrong.” And the obligatory Jimmy Hendrix singing about being talked to like a dog:

Read the whole Instapundit thread for a lot more.

Video of Cynthia Tucker: Stimulus "Biggest Tax Cut In U.S. History"

Not only did she assert that the stimulus was the biggest tax cut in history (canned laughter), but also that Obama is causing whites to fear a "white minority." This is apparently what Obama's post-racial America looks like:

Note the look of concern and agreement on the faces of all the sycophantic suck-ups on the show. The nodding heads. Thin crinkled eyebrows. It's as if the burning bush was speaking to them. Earth to Tucker: Obama hasn't talked about tax cuts in the stimulus because they were virtually non-existent. His talking up the tax portion of the porkulus boondoggle would have been akin to the morbidly obese going on a diet by skipping the after dinner mint at an all you can eat buffet. It would have been laughable. Lastly, Charles Krathammer has something actually astute about Obama's new 6-year stimulus: “Even Lenin Had the Modesty to Stop at Five”

Video of AFL-CIO President Trumka: Obama's Created More Jobs Than Bush In 8 Years--With A Surplus To Boot!

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka does not live on this plain of existence. His plain of existence lies elsewhere, in a liberal Utopia that has been called ObamaLand - a place where spending money you don't have leads to economic prosperity and jobs growth to no end. Unfortunately, doing the same thing in the real world leads to increased unemployment and job losses. Even with the recession, Bush saw net positive job creation. Obama on the other hand has lost more than 4 million jobs, with more than 3 million lost since the stimulus boondoggle was signed into law. How does Trumka state with a straight face that Obama created any net jobs at all much less more than Bush? And that we have a surplus? Wha....????

Trumka's claim that the stimulus was too small because of Republican opposition, something Court Jester Joe Biden asserted before, is not true. Here's a piece of the original stimulus proposal:

A. Aggregate Jobs Effects
Estimating the aggregate employment effects of the proposed American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan involves several steps. The first is to specify a prototypical package. We have assumed a package just slightly over the $775 billion currently under discussion. It includes a range of measures, all of which have been discussed publicly.

The package was exactly what Obama wanted, and now Biden is making excuses for why it's not working, without explicitly coming out and saying it's not working. But pointing a finger at the GOP for for what he considers a shortcoming a year and half later pretty much says what we have been pointing out all along - the stimulus is a failure and a waste of money. Nothing is more damning than the actual results versus what Obama promised. We were told that the stimulus would create 3.5 million NEW jobs by this time, but almost 3 million have been lost instead. As Sen. Michael Bennet (D) said recently: Trillions in Debt, "NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT". As for Obama's inheriting the deficit, I appear to need to remind everyone - again - that Obama 1) voted for as Senator or signed into law as President every single penny of the deficit he now says he inherited, and 2) the housing meltdown was due to policies that he helped put in place going all the way back to his community organizer days when he muscled banks to give loans to people that couldn't pay them back. For one, his own voting record:

• Voted "yea" March 18, 2008 on the $3.1 trillion in fiscal outlays with a projected $400 billion budget deficit (only 2 Republicans voted "yea", and not one Republican in the House voted for it after the conference committee)
• Biden, Rahm Emmanuel and Hillary Clinton voted "yea" as well
• Voted "yea" October 1, 2008 for the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) along with Biden and Clinton
• Pushed through and signed into law the $787 billion stimulus bill boondoggle in February 2009
• Signed into law $410 billion of additional spending in the 2009 budget in March 2009

Thus, how does Trumka (and Obama) blame Bush when he either voted for (along party lines no less) or signed into law every single gosh-darned penny that is now the record $1.4 trillion deficit, with a projected 2010 deficit of $1.45 trillion? And with a straight face no less?  Just to put that into perspective, this is where we are at:

That dive off the cliff isn't just a one-time thing though. Here's the projections for the next 10 years:

The above projections do not take into account either ObamaCare or cap-and-trade.This by the way does not absolve Bush for leaving a $400 billion deficit that I thought was unconscionable, but by comparison Bush looks like a fiscal conservative. Obama, in contrast, not only voted for the 2009 budget, but praised it afterwards. From NewsBusters:

March 14 (2008)
Obama Statement on the Senate's Passage of the FY 2009 Budget

Washington DC -- Sen. Obama today released a statement on the Senate's passage of the FY 2009 Federal Budget:

"In Illinois and throughout the country, Americans share common hopes and common struggles. They are worried about keeping their jobs and being able to pay record gas prices and stay ahead of their mortgages and credit card bills and still have enough left over to make ends meet. They want to know that they'll have health care when they get sick - not just for themselves, but for their children and elderly parents. They want to know that a quality education and a college degree are within reach for all Americans. They want to retire with security and dignity. And they want to know that our government is doing everything it can to keep our nation safe and secure.

"The budget passed by the Senate tonight makes significant progress in getting our nation's priorities back on track. After years of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, this year's budget helps restore fiscal responsibility in Washington, and provides tax relief for the middle class and low-income families who need help most. It includes an expansion in the Child Tax Credit that I have fought for and makes marriage penalty relief permanent. And it rejects the President's drastic cuts in important domestic programs.

"We need change in this country, and this budget is an important step in helping bring it about. I commend Chairman Conrad for his extraordinary leadership in moving this resolution forward and moving America's fiscal policies in the right direction."

As I have mentioned before, Obama has done more deficit spending in just his first 421 days in office than Bush did in more than 4 years. The FY 2007 federal budget - the last one put together by Republicans - was $2.7 trillion. Since Pelosi and Reid took over the federal budget is at $3.8 trillion. The deficit is almost entirely comprised of new Democrat spending since 2007. And as bad as a $400 billion deficit sounds, it is absolutely puny compared to what has happened since Obama took office.


Trumka is the same one that asserted a few months ago that there is no debt crisis. No really: Video of AFL-CIO President: "We Don't Have A Deficit Crisis"

This, by the way, is where Trumka lives:

Naked cyclists pedal through Philadelphia to promote cleaner air

The eco-minded seem to have a thing for nudity. Apparently, being naked is a way to stop global warming. So pedal through Philadelphia they did. I know it's supposed to be for a good cause. Biking is good. Clean air is good. I know this was a good-hearted effort. But I can't get past one thing: those have to be some really stinky seats:

via the AP via The Oakland Press, which took down the above pic when readers apparently complained that they had to wash their eyes out with soap after seeing it.

Video: Obama Trots Out "Car in the Ditch" Analogy Again; Says GOP Drinks "Slurpee" While He Works

Driving the car into the ditch is one thing. Getting it out of the ditch by detonating a bomb under it, which Obama has done, has made things worse, not better. Never mind that the car went into the ditch in the first place because of Democrat policies in housing and mortgage lending, something Bush tried to do something about.

He's accusing the GOP of standing by and watching while he spent the entire summer golfing?

Des Moines Police Covering Up "Beat Whitey Night " at the Iowa State Fair

Recall "Beat Whitey Night" last month at the Iowa State Fair:

The DeMoines Register had this: Police say it's 'very possible' attacks near fairgrounds had racial overtones. Well guess how the investigation is going. Since this was a black on white racially-motivated crime - totally backwards from the narrative at hand - the investigation is being railroaded into a dead end, starting with the reassignment of the police officers on site. From the DeMoines Register: Police spokeswoman moved after remarks on fairgrounds fights

Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw reassigned her department's spokeswoman Thursday, two weeks after Sgt. Lori Lavorato said it was "very possible" fights near the Iowa State Fairgrounds had racial overtones.

The move came as a part of a series of police command assignment changes announced to officers by e-mail Thursday, the details of which have not been made public.

Bradshaw, who could not be reached for comment Thursday, raised concerns about statements Lavorato made after a series of fights outside the fairgrounds last month.

A supplemental report about the Aug. 20 incident filed by Sgt. Dave Murillo said, "On-duty officers at the fairgrounds advise there was a group of 30 to 40 individuals roaming the fairgrounds openly calling it 'beat whitey night.' "

While answering questions from the news media three days later, Lavorato said, "It's all under investigation, but it's very possible it has racial overtones."

..."I had some real concerns with us making that leap and making a remark like that publicly," Bradshaw told The Des Moines Register in an Aug. 26 interview. "That's a huge statement that, quite frankly, can provoke emotions on both sides of the issue.

Kind of like Obama accusing police of "acting stupidly" in arresting his black friend for belligerency. I'm sure the reassignments will have a chilling effect on anyone else in the department coming forward and telling the truth of what happened that night. The on-duty officers know exactly what happened, and are being silenced by the pc police. Soon, public calls for "kill whitey" won't even be reported.

Awesome: LA school built on toxic soil named after Al Gore

It's not so much an irony as it is appropriate for the global warming huckster that flies around the planet on private jets and lives in a home that consumes 45 times the energy of the average American home while warning us of our energy usage and its ill effect on our planet for a school named after him to be built on a toxic dump. The school is devoted to environmental themes. It's not irony - it's poetic justice. From the LA Times via drudge:

Critics say the campus' location poses a long-term health risk to students and staff. ...

"Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public's health from harm," an environmental coalition wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Making sure the school is safe "would be an even better way to honor their contribution to society."

Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. ...

Groundwater about 45 feet below the surface remains contaminated but also poses no risk, officials said.

...other critics, including Robina Suwol, who heads the locally based California Safe Schools coalition, worry that the pollution sources have not been adequately identified and that the dirty groundwater could recontaminate the soil.

The principal however is throwing caution to the wind and wants to plant a garden and have a student-led farmer's market. Maybe they can feed the fruit to the eco moonabts and see how things work out.

Granholm: Hope for Michigan after 'decade from hell' that I created

The annual run across the Mackinac Bridge this year was symbolic of Granholm's entire administration. It rained during the entire run. But as soon as Granholm finished and was no longer in the run, the sun came up. The AP reports via The Detroit News:

In her eighth year as governor, Granholm acknowledges the state has been through a "decade from hell"...

She also said that she sees hope for Michigan's future with a "more diverse economy" and a "higher-trained work force." This no doubt is an implication of her master plan to shift to "green jobs." How's that been going? As Henry Payne pointed out in The Michigan View, "Since hand-picking the green sector as Michigan's future back in 2006, the state's unemployment rate has doubled." In fact, here's the relevant graphic as far as what has happened since Granholm's epiphany brain fart:

This was the same time where Granholm made perhaps her most famous promise:

That 5 years is up in January. I'll say one thing for Granhom - she sure delivered.Michigan's lost decade is all hers. She can take it with her when she leaves.

White House "Panicking Over Elections," Dems "Flailing Around"

Just another sign that the Obama administration was never in touch in the first place. They rammed down our throats an agenda that 1) We the People don't wants, and 2) that is unconstitutional. And now a political price must be paid and Obama doesn't like it one single bit. From CBS News via memeorandum:

With many polls indicating the Republicans may win back control of the House of Representatives (and possibly the Senate as well) in the upcoming mid-term elections, Jim VandeHei, the executive editor of Politico, told CBS' "Face the Nation" that the Obama administration is in a horrible position.

"Does the White House understand this?" asked guest host Harry Smith. "Do you feel any sense of panic or concern" on the part of the administration?

"They get it. There's panic. There's concern," VandeHei said. "The reality for this administration stinks, politically and practically, when it comes to the economy. You're not going to be able to change that 9.6-percent unemployment figure. You can't get anything from Congress in the next couple of months."

CBS Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes said the Democrats are distancing themselves from President Obama.

"Not only are they running away from President Obama, they're running away from being Democrats in some cases. In some races you actually see the Democratic candidates not really mentioning that they're a Democrat in their campaign ads," Cordes said.

Here's the video:

RINO John McCain had this to say: Dems ‘flailing around’

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday called a series of tax breaks to be proposed by the White House this week "a deathbed conversion" and slammed Democrats for wanting to let tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans expire.

"They're just flailing around," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday." "We always like to see deathbed conversions ... but it isn't going to resolve this incredible uncertainty out there."

Not only is it too little too late, it is tantamount to nothing after what they rammed through. They would salvage the election in only one way - repeal ObamaCare and the financial deform bill and apologize profusely to the American public. Told of such a prospect, Bill Clinton had this reaction (with a guy that looks just like Boris Yeltsin):

Pointing out union hypocrisy on Labor Day

It is appropriate today to point out the utter hypocrisy of unions that rail against corporations as a cartel of thieves while they themselves do pretty much the same thing as corporations do. For instance, from an August post of mine: Irony: Union worker gets fired for trying to unionize union workers. That union would be the United Federation of Teachers which by the way opposes any initiative it sees as non-union in the Detroit Public Schools -  district that the union is partly responsible for running right into the ground. From that prior post:

In a move of stunning hypocrisy, the United Federation of Teachers axed one of its longtime employees — for trying to unionize the powerful labor organization’s own workers, it was charged yesterday.

Jim Callaghan, a veteran writer for the teachers union, told The Post he was booted from his $100,000-a-year job just two months after he informed UFT President Michael Mulgrew that he was trying to unionize some of his co-workers.

“I was fired for trying to start a union at the UFT,” said a dumbfounded Callaghan, who worked for the union’s newsletter and as a speechwriter for union leaders for the past 13 years.

Callaghan said he personally told Mulgrew on June 9 about his intention to try to organize nonunionized workers at UFT headquarters.

“I told him I want to have the same rights that teachers have,” said Callaghan, 63, of Staten Island. “He told me he didn’t want that, that he wanted to be able to fire whoever he wanted to.”

The UFT has long strenuously resisted city efforts to make it easier for school administrators to fire teachers.

Here is one from right here in Michigan from back in June: Irony: Michigan Education Association (MEA) protests privatizing janitors in schools, but themselves use private janitor services!

The financial report also disclosed that the union has been doing the same thing as many local school districts - outsourcing basic services to save money. The union paid $114,000 to the Ellis Cleaning Service during the reporting period, as well as significant sums to five other companies that provided various services that could have been done in-house - if the MEA had hired its own union employees and paid them top dollar, like they expect school districts to do. ...

Stunning hypocrisy indeed. Deroy Murdock has 2 more examples of union hypocrisy on this Labor Day over at National Review via The Michigan View:

- Private companies often complain that union labor is too expensive. The Teamsters agree. When they constructed their 16,246-square-foot union hall in Houston, they didn't use union workers because they were too costly. "There are serious solidarity issues here," Richard Shaw of the Harris County AFL-CIO moaned to the Houston Chronicle.

- "We've got to downsize," a United Auto Workers source said last December. As its membership shrank from some 500,000 in 2008 to 431,000 in 2009, the car-industry union fired 120 of its own staffers "to balance its budget," the Detroit News noted. More amazing, after UAW personnel rejected their management's austere contract proposal, union bosses imposed it on remaining staffers anyway.

Private labor for me, bot not for thee! And people will celebrate with the unions today? For that?

Good Grief: White House Wants Doctors to Prescribe Drugs for Fat Kids

Right on the heals of my earlier post today about why the BMI is discredited on a its scientific merits (or lack thereof), comes this video of Michelle Obama publicly telling the little people that the government will be tracking your BMI and pushing doctors to make healthcare decisions for you, in direct contradiction to what Barack Hussein Obama was saying on the stump in the runup to ObamaCare:

As usual, whatever Hussein says, the opposite is true. The man has no shame. None. This is not the kind of change Obama promised.

It's your waist size, not your BMI, that is an indicator of obesity

I've railed against the BMI many times in this blog ( here, here, here and here for starters). In short, weight alone does not differentiate healthy lean tissue from fat. Some tend to have larger bone structure and more muscle mass. Some of us adults (not many, but anyway) have taken to the bodybuilding lifestyle where by design we increase our BMI but minimize fat at the same time. In essence, the problem is that eth BMI is being used to identify fat people, but does not measure fat. Furthermore, obese people have a high BMI, but a high BMI does not mean you are obese. Conversely, people with normal BMI may have abdominal obesity that will do them in. From MSNBC: Your muffin top may kill you

If your pants are feeling a bit tight around the waistline, take note: Belly bulge can be deadly for older adults, even those who aren't overweight or obese by other measures.

One of the largest studies to examine the dangers of abdominal fat suggests men and women with the biggest waistlines have twice the risk of dying over a decade compared to those with the smallest tummies.

Surprisingly, bigger waists carry a greater risk of death even for people whose weight is "normal" by the body mass index, or BMI, a standard measure based on weight and height.

The problem with BMI is that it is a standard measure of obesity but a very poor one indeed. Other research has linked waist size, not BMI, to dementia, heart disease, asthma and breast cancer. I have to think that measuring waist size is even easier for the bureaucrat (and the doctor) than measuring BMI. I would also think that waist size would be indexed to height (a 40 inch waist for someone 5 foot 5 inches would be worse than for someone 6 feet 5 inches). This is reason #151 not to use the BMI to gauge obesity and thus health. Professor Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit points to this article over at NPR a while ago: Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus. Here's the short of it: 

1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual.

2. It is scientifically nonsensical. (why square the height? And ignore waist circumference?)

3. It is physiologically wrong. (bodybuilders and athletes are screwed)

4. It gets the logic wrong. (if you are obese, your BMI is high. If you have a high BMI, you may not be obese at all!)

5. It's bad statistics. (assumes little muscle mass)

7. It suggests there are distinct categories of underweight, ideal, overweight and obese, with sharp boundaries that hinge on a decimal place. (nonsense!)

8. It makes the more cynical members of society suspect that the medical insurance industry lobbies for the continued use of the BMI to keep their profits high. (Some insurance companies charge higher premiums for people with a high BMI! Bingo!)

9. Continued reliance on the BMI means doctors don't feel the need to use one of the more scientifically sound methods that are available to measure obesity levels. (body calipers anyone?)

10. It embarrasses the U.S. ("It is embarrassing for one of the most scientifically, technologically and medicinally advanced nations in the world to base advice on how to prevent one of the leading causes of poor health and premature death (obesity) on a 200-year-old numerical hack developed by a mathematician who was not even an expert in what little was known about the human body back then." - yup!)

In short, the BMI is utter garbage.

What we need right now: the “Public Sector Pension Sustainability Act”

We are heading for utter disaster here in Michigan and everywhere else. Public sector unions use their vast resources to elect puppet politicians from the state level right down to the local school boards that they then negotiate with. No one is there to speak for the taxpayer that has to foot the bill. As it is, pensions here in Michigan are constitutionally guaranteed. Because of the unions essentially negotiating with themselves, they are also underfunded. Just a few months ago the teachers here in MI by law are now required to contribute a measly 3% to their pension fund. They sued: Michigan Education Association (MEA) Buses in teachers to Lansing by the thousands to protest requirement for teachers to start contributing 3% of their pay toward their retirement benefits. Here in Michigan teachers are already paid better than any other teacher in the country per unit Michigander income (Average Teacher Salaries in Michigan Highest in the Nation When Compared to Relative State Wealth):

But there's a bigger underlying problem: the pension system for the teachers is dangerously underfunded. You can get the relevant info on pension obligations at this link. Hit the link for 2009 and on page 46 here's what you get:

The pension fund in currently $26 billion in the hole! Currently about 17% of all school funding is going into unsustainable benefits, and that numbers is growing fast. Since the unions, and their puppet politicians, are unwilling to switch to defined contributions, I have the solution to the problem:

Introducing The “Public Sector Pension Sustainability Act”

Pensions are taxed at 0% here in Michigan. To sustain the benefits, the bill will levy a tax on public sector pensions that will go directly into the pension fund, and the tax rate will be whatever it needs to be such that pension fund is sustainable and the outlays match the funding. In addition, public sector defined contribution disbursements get a 0% tax. It's quite simple really. Once this is passed into law, the unions will be far more amenable to switching to defined contribution plans when their membership complains of the tax. In essence, you really do get more of what you tax less, and visa versa. I have proposed this idea several times before on this blog, but things continue to get worse looking forward. From Instapundit today:

THE HILL: Businesses and unions to meet on possible pension disaster.

An August report by the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University found government pension programs in as many as 31 states are headed for financial disaster by 2030 and that taxpayers will likely wind up paying for unfunded liabilities.

“Even if states uniformly eliminated generous early retirement deals and raised the retirement age to 74, the unfunded liability for promises already made would still be more than $1 trillion,” Kellogg associate professor Joshua Rauh said in prepared remarks.

I once thought that just shifting to a consumption tax here in Michigan would help, and it certainly would, but as long as our elected leaders continue to make promises they cannot keep, at the behest of public sector unions, there simply isn't enough money to meet unreasonable outlays no matter the general tax code. The beast must be tamed and a focused tax that feeds directly into the fund seems like an easy and clean way to do it. It's time for the legislature to act.

Michiganders are waking up to the reality that public employees, and especially K-12 teachers in this state, are enjoying extravagant reimbursement for their services far in excess of the private sector such as 1) higher pay than their private sector counterparts, 2) better job security than anyone in the private sector, 3) healthcare benefits far in excess of the private sector, and 4) pension benefits that are far in excess of the private sector that has largely eradicated the unsustainable practice. I don't think all 4 are unfair. I say pick one, say #2, and maybe to a lesser extent #1. But 3 and 4 have got to go.

UPDATE: Linked by Instapundit!Thank you!

UPDATE #2: In a related Insty thread:

“Dear Public Pensioners.”

See… businesses, people, and yes even governments too, that spend way, way, way more money than they make do this thing called “going broke.” When that happens the creditors of the “broke” entity take what is called “a bath.” . . . Those decisions will be made as follows. The least politically powerful people will be screwed first and hardest. The most politically powerful people will be screwed last and least.

All that means that grandma and grandpa, and the physically disabled as well, had better not be too reliant upon their government checks for food. Next will come, I am sorry to say, public employees. After them, the fat cats and wheeler dealers ( that’s right, public employees, the people that organized your unions) will take their bath. But you can bet it won’t be as hot or as thorough as the bath you’re going to take. Last and least will come the elected officials who will, amazingly, emerge from the whole mess completely unscathed. That’s how it’s going to work. I don’t tell you this because I dislike you. I tell you because I figure maybe you can use the warning to plan ahead, and buy lots of canned goods and a wood stove.

Ouch. Read the whole thing.

And read the whole thread while you're at it.

Dems running away from killer bunny ObamaCare; officials in DC can’t identify a single House member who’s running an ad boasting of a “yes” vote

Run away, RUN AWAY!

Not only are they running away from ObamaCare but some Democrats are running against it! From The Politico:

A handful of House Democrats are making health care reform an election year issue — by running against it.

At least five of the 34 House Democrats who voted against their party’s health care reform bill are highlighting their “no” votes in ads back home. By contrast, party officials in Washington can’t identify a single House member who’s running an ad boasting of a “yes” vote — despite the fact that 219 House Democrats voted in favor of final passage in March.

One Democratic strategist said it would be “political malfeasance” to run such an ad now.

Democrats have taken that advice to heart; it appears that no Democratic incumbent — in the House or in the Senate — has run a pro-reform TV ad since April, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) ran one.

Most of the Democrats running ads highlighting their opposition to the law are in conservative-leaning districts and considered the most endangered. They’re using their vote against the overhaul as proof of their willingness to buck party leadership and their commitment to watching the nation’s debt.

But... I thought ObamaCare was supposed to lower the debt? Read the rest of the piece for a few examples of the Democrat chicken littles running away from their own shadows. If the ObamaCare debacle proves anything it is that there is no such thing as a moderate or centrist Democrat, nor a pro-life Democrat (read: Stupak). They are all culpable in usurping the US Constitution and they may be endangered now, but many of them will be found extinct come November.

Cops bust 2 Maryland abortionists for storing dozens of dead babies in a freezer

Abortionists have a seared conscience, or whatever is left of it. They treat babies just like feces, fit only to be ground up and flushed down the toilet. Or thrown out with the trash. They keep some pieces of babies displayed in jars in their offices like trophies. In February a Philadelphia abortionists was busted for storing dead babies in a freezer to hide the fact that he was illegally performing late-term abortions: Philadelphia abortionist that kept babies in freezer, jars speaks out, says he's a "good person"

It is no isolated incident. Two Maryland abortionists have been caught doing essentially the same thing. And what lead to the bust in Maryland is the same thing that lead to the bust in Philly - injured women. From the NC Register via Free Republic via Gateway Pundit:

Two abortionists in Maryland (Dr. Steven Brigham and Dr. Nicola Riley) were ordered to stop practicing abortions in Maryland after a woman was severely injured.

And that's just the physical injury they are talking about. Who knows how long it will take the psychological scars to heal, if ever.

Subsequently, police raided the clinic searching for medical records and to their horror they discovered dozens of unborn babies stored in a freezer.

...Authorities reported: “There was blood on the floor, and parts of aborted fetuses were displayed in jars.”

Trophies of their hunt of helpless unborn babies. You hate to even call these people predators.

Video: Al Sharpton Calls Alabama State Senate District “Heir Property” for African-Americans

Welcome to Obama's post-racial America. Race-baiter Al Sharpton claimed that Johnny Ford should win his State Senate Primary runoff against white candidate Billy Beasley because that district is “heir property” to black people:

Guess what happened? White man Billy Beasley easily won the primary over Ford by garnering 62% of the vote. Perhaps Sharpton gave Ford a kiss of death with that race-baiting speech?

Video: Daily Motivation With Nick Vujicic

Nick spoke at a couple of pro-life events here in Michigan the last couple of years. I haven't had a chance to meet him, but I know many people that have and all say Nick is one amazing man to be around. So if you're down today and think you've got it bad, meet Nick Vujicic:

Video: New Hampshire man fighting to display Bible passages along side of road that he owns!

This is not the America that our Founding Fathers created. They would be aghast at the religious censorship/persecution being hurled at Christians these days.

'Light pollution.' I think what the libs mean up there is they have light pollution, as in they soul is polluted and they don't want to see the light.

Video: Mark Steyn on Sheila Jackson Lee's Concern About "Racist Nomenclature" for Hurricanes

Want to know what Rome's ruling class was doing while the city burned? Sheila Jackson's concern is not the economy, the unemployment, or our unsustainable debt. Her concern is how hurricanes are named. As in the names aren't black enough, and that apparently is yet another sign of racism amongst the tea leaves. From Snopes: They Call The Wind M'Ry-ah. Apparently, Jackson-Lee has been on a hurricane crusdae of sorts for years now.

In July 2003, Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee (a member of the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, and an ardent supporter of the current civil-rights leadership) criticized the weather establishment for its selection of names with which to christen hurricanes, stating that "All racial groups should be represented." Her comment was prompted by the 2003 list of hurricane names, which for the first time included French and Spanish appellations (derived from languages spoken in areas that border the Atlantic Ocean, where such storms occur), and she expressed the hope that in the future such lists "would try to be inclusive of African American names" as well.

Well, just like herpes, Jackson-Lee's race-baiting is back, this time rebuffed by Mark Steyn:

Will Jackson Lee's next complaint be that the news doesn;'t report enough that hurricanes appear white from space?

Video: Teachers Protest Their Own Students Who Choose To Join Military At High School Assembly

In our public schools indoctrination centers today, you can force schoolchildren to attend a “Social Justice Student Expo” featuring images of Che Guevara:

Bus drivers can berates schoolchildren over religious beliefs, calling them "stupid bigots" for opposing Obama's abortion views:

If that's not enough (plenty of more examples in this blog alone), how about we throw in some teachers that are protesting their own students in their own High School while they are punched in on the clock:

From the YouTube caption:

We have the greatest freedoms and rights in this wonderful country......but along with these rights and freedoms is the responsibility of using some common sense when best to apply them.

It is a bit ironic that these teachers decided to protest "war" at an assembly in which school officials recognized graduating seniors entering the military. The assembly was not glorifying or supporting war, rather it was recognizing these wonderful citizens sacrifice to offer their service and possibly their lives to protect the teachers right to protest....... at least in this person eyes, this was very disrespectful.

At least one of the teachers, in addition to the paid leave has been given an unpaid suspension for the first 10 days of school in September. While a small minority might find this punishment disturbing, the teacher appears to be able voice her right/opinions quite freely and openly as "her anti-war views are well known" to the students and school district.

But oppose Obama on your own time, and you will get fired. NO SOUP FOR YOU!

Video: $700,000 Stimulus Dollars for Joke-Telling Software

It's hard to imagine anyone arguing this to be a good use of taxpayer dollars:

With the stimulus boondoggle, the joke is on us. We're going into massive debt while our rulers are feasting.

Video: Jack Webb Takes AG Eric Holder to School On Immigration

An awesome find via moonbattery:

In real life, can you see the scenario playing out any differently? This is why sheriff Paul Babeu in the above video stated that "Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy"

Good grief: Catholic University Notre Dame Fires Employee For Attending Pro-Life Rally

This is a disgusting corruption of whatever moral values still reside at Notre Dame, a Catholic University. Recall that Notre Dame gave an honorary degree to pro-abortion and pro-infanticide Barack Hussein Obama last year:

• A Catholic Lesson In Irony From Notre Dame: ND President Fr. Jenkins To Walk In Anti RvW Parade While Roe Herself Was Arrested At Jenkin's Request  
• Obama Seeks Common Ground On Abortion At Notre Dame: Let's Fillet Only Half The Baby Or Something!  
• Sarah Palin On The Obama/Notre Dame Scandal

Notre Dame was good enough to even cover up the cross behind Obama when he spoke. So why the surprise when they start firing employees who are defending a baby's biblical right to life? From Lifenews:

Because he participated in the protest students, staff and pro-life supporters backed when Notre Dame University decided to allow pro-abortion President Barack Obama to give its commencement speech, Associate Vice-President for Residence Life Bill Kirk apparently lost his job.

Father Tom Doyle, Notre Dame’s new Vice-President for Student Affairs reportedly fired Kirk, who had spent nearly 22 years with the college.

Dr. David Solomon, a Notre Dame professor, penned a column in the conservative Irish Rover newspaper laying out what happened, and it is already causing a buzz on the Internet and in Catholic circles.

"The decision was both unfair and imprudent. It was unfair, because, as a loyal employee of Notre Dame for almost 22 years—and one who had been placed repeatedly in positions where he took the brunt of public criticism for enforcing policies adopted by his superiors—he deserved better from those superiors than to be removed from office with no notice and with no public explanation for his removal," Solomon wrote.

Solomon noted how Bill and his wife Elizabeth were active in pro-life activities on campus and with the response to the Obama speech.

Bill was the only administrator to be at the pro-life rally by the way.

"At the time Bill took part in the NDResponse rally, many people commented on the courage it took for him to stand with his wife and other witnesses to this protest of Notre Dame’s decision to award President Obama an honorary degree. I personally discounted these worries, believing that the Notre Dame administration would admire him for his principled stand on a matter so close to the Catholic heart of Notre Dame, even if they disagreed with his particular action," Solomon continued.

Chalk up another unemployed American to Obama. Last year, ESPN anchor Dana Jacobson, was quoted as saying "f*** Jesus" (and continues to hold her job after all of a 1-week vacation suspension). Notre Dame leadership is basically saying the same by their actions. A Catholic University siding with and praising an anti-Christian - Obama - over a Christian that they fire. Shame on them.

UPDATE: After the Obama speech at ND, there was this the next day: Video: John Piper To Obama - "NO Mr. President!"

Granholm to Obama before auto bankruptcies: "I hope you know what you're doing"

Granholm should have known better. Obama didn't know what he was doing as President any more than Granholm knew what she was doing as governor. So you have an incompetent governor worrying that an incompetent community organizer-in-chief was making the wrong decision? According to Obama's car czar Steve Rattner, that was indeed the case. Rattner wrote a tell-all book about the auto bailouts and bankruptcies where amongst other items, Obama "seemed to have it in for the automakers from the beginning". From the Washington Post via The Michigan View, a juicy detail regarding the actor that has been playing governor for the last 7 1/2 years:

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D), dejected about the possibility the automakers would have to file for bankruptcy, tells Obama in a voice barely above a whisper: "I hope you know what you're doing."

Recall that the whole point of the bailouts of GM and Chrysler was to avoid bankruptcy, not to go into it with the 800-pound government gorilla on their backs. The result was that that unions, not the autos, got saved in bankruptcy. As for Granholm, she should have know that Obama didn't have a clue. From my prior post, here is a choice snippet from Rattner's book:

At his first substantive sit-down with his advisers a week after the election, when the U.S. auto industry's problems were broached, Obama quipped:

"Why can't they make a Corolla?"

And possibly the money quote of the book:

Later, when Obama was informed of the plan to give ousted GM Chief Rick Wagoner $7.1 million, his jaw muscles tightened and Rattner writes: "Suddenly I felt that I was indeed in the presence of a community organizer..."

ie - Obama was and is clueless about the auto industry as he is about the economy or any other aspect of being President.

UPDATE: Linked by Doug Powers over at Michelle Malkin! Thanks!

Video: Anderson Cooper Takes Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D) To The Woodshed For Illegally Directing Scholarship Money To Family

That swamp that was supposed to be drained? Not so much. So toxic has the swamp become that not even Anderson "teabagger" Cooper can keep from calling a corruptocrat to the carpet:

FOr Cooper, it;s too late to wake up and start practicing journalism for the first time. As I wrote a few days ago: CNN’s Primetime Viewership Hits 10 Year Low. Cooper was part of the problem that lead to that decline. In the meantime, Fox News is enjoying record ratings. That's what happens when you actually report the news. As for Eddie Bernice Johnson, she just wants to "move on." I kid you not! From Ace:

Texas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson steered Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarships to relatives and the children of relatives, and got busted by the Dallas Morning News. Gabriel covered this story a few days ago.

Cathy over at the Splitters forwarded me a video of Anderson Cooper interviewing Johnson by phone, in which she explains very clearly how she accepts full responsibility, she made a mistake, she didn't know the rules, she paid back all the money, and she's so ready to move on. I'm just linking 3 minutes of it, but you can back it up and watch it all if you want.

...I did it. I got caught. I gave it back. We can be done now.

"I;m ready to move on." The cry of the corruptocrat.

Reason TV: Free the 'Shine! Why it's finally time to legalize liquor

Since the 1970's, it's been legal for you and I to make our own beer. Everything else, not so much. Reason TV wonders if it's time for that to change too:

From the YouTube caption:

If drinking makes us healthier and wealthier, why is America's liquor policy so screwy?

Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing in 1978, and that newfound freedom fueled the craft beer movement that continues to lavish beer lovers with endless choices. But in many ways, laws that govern whiskey, gin, and other distilled spirits are stuck in the 1920s.

Federal agents still raid distilleries much like they did during Prohibition, and making any amount of moonshine at home is not only illegal, it's a felony that can carry up to five years in prison. The result is a market dominated by a few big names, where would-be craftsmen are forced to hide their work.

And yet, despite the danger, America is in the midst of "moonshine renaissance," in which a new wave of hipster hobbyists has joined with old-time 'shiners to flout the law and do what they love to do.

It's a good question. Then again, we have far bigger fish to fry right now. After repealing ObamaCare, the Wall Street takeover bill, and getting entitlements under control (my preference would be to break up entitlement programs into 50 pieces and let states handle them), then I'll spend energy on this issue. Right now, not so much. Exit question: if one gets caught with a still in their back yard, can they claim they are making ethanol fuel to help the environment?

Audio: Sarah Palin Calls MSM Reporters ‘Impotent, Limp, and Gutless’

Add to that list 'shills for Obaam and Democrats,' 'sycophantic suck-ups' and a few colorful adjectives that I won't write here. Via The Other McCain:

Video: Brawl breaks out at bobybuilding competition

Yesterday, it happened at the US Open Tennis Tourney:

And now bodybuilding:

Which begs the question:

What the hell is going on? Is no sport safe anymore? Did Philadelphia fans branch out to all other sports? Reason #297 why I tend to watch sports at home on my comfy couch in front of a big screen TV and surround sound.

Video: Are Some Democrats Making Case for Repeal of Obamacare?

Why yes - yes they are:

Never mind my #1 problem with the boondoggle - it's UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Someone please send the Democrats Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution that explicitly lays out the powers granted to Congress.

Media bias: How the AP reports private versus public sector jobs

Yesterday, the AP reported the August jobs growth picture. What does this headline tell you:

• Companies add 67,000 workers, but jobless rate rises

As it turns out, companies did add 67,000 jobs, but overall there was a net jobs loss of 54,000. So you think that the AP just reports private sector losses or gains rather than total numbers, right? Uh - not quite. In early May, the AP reported on the April jobs number with this headline:

• Employers add 290,000 jobs in April

Guess what? That 290,000 number includes private and public sector hiring. One month prior, the AP headline for the March jobs numbers:

• Employers added most jobs in 3 years in March

Again, the numbers include both private and public sector hiring. From AP headlines we can thus back out some rules about reporting jobs that have developed over time but now seem consistent:

Rule #1: When there is a gain in jobs, report the total number - private + public
Ruke #2: When net jobs have been lost but there is positive private jobs growth, just report the private and ignore the public

In other words, report whatever makes Obama look better. Apparently it's the state-run AP's golden rule these days.

Previously on AP bias:
AP Headline: "Democrats Declare Swamp of Corruption Drained." Also, Ahmadinejad: "No Gays in Iran." And Bill Clinton reaffirms: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman..."
Unexpectedly: New weekly jobless claims jump by 37,000
AP: Primary election of Republicans Nikki Haley (Indian-American) and Tim Scott (Black) show that racist, intolerant GOP is making racial progress or something
AP: Katrina wasn't so bad. All the 1,800 bodies would only fill only one bathroom in the Superdome if stacked correctly
Change! AP alters headline because it was too accurate in regards to ObamaCare disaster
UPDATED and bumped with Video: MSM covering up Biden gaffe as he defended the stimulus in Michigan, got the century wrong
AP's 6th sense detects anti-abortion message in Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad where there was none
AP: 2000s warmest decade on record because it snowed a lot or something
Triple crown of bias: MSNBC & AP deny ClimateGate because 7 global warming alarmists say so
AP: New jobless claims fall unexpectedly because last week had only 3 working days, but we won't mention that last part too much
AP uses GDP to declare end to recession, but ignores GDP for when it began - in the same article!
GOOD NEWS: Metro Detroit Jobless Rate Down. BAD NEWS: Decrease Due To Workers Dropping Out Of Workfoce
AP last week: 514K new jobless claims, 5th drop in 6 weeks, YEA! AP this week: New jobless claims rise more than expected to 531K, oh crap!
New Jobless Last Week At 530,000. AP Calls It Good News Because They Expected Higher! A Weekly Pattern Is Developing Here With "Unexpected" At Center
New Jobless Last Week At 545,000. AP Calls It Good News Because They Expected Higher!
How To Sugarcoat Obama's Rising Unemployment Rate, Now At 9.7%? AP Shows Us How!
USA Today: You know what's wrong with the economy? Those darned consumers are being fiscally responsible!
A contrast in liberal media bias: How the Washington Post reported the economy under Bush and now under Obama
AP sugarcoats unemployment number - went down because many just stopped looking for work!
Hope and change - Obama's poll numbers sinking fast. What to do? Why bash Bush of course!
Obama: Stimulus Is Working Or Something
How does the MSM sugar-coat 565,000 new jobless claims? This is how:
AP strategy to give Obama cover as 467,000 more jobs cut in June, unemployment now at 9.5% - BLAME BUSH!
U.S. jobless rate jumps to 9.4 percent; stimulus a proven failure; MSM whitewashing