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Riding Coattails

Hillary Clinton is still riding Bill's coattails. According to NewsMax Hillary can become the nominee for Secretary of State if Bill agrees...

  • to disclose the names of every contributor to his foundation since its inception in 1997 and all contributors going forward.
  • to refuse donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Global Initiative, his annual charitable conference.
  • to cease holding CGI meetings overseas.
  • to volunteer to step away from day-to-day management of the foundation while his wife is secretary of state.
  • to submit his speaking schedule to review by the State Department and White House counsel.
  • to submit any new sources of income to a similar ethical review.
  • and admits that his impeachment wasn't about sex and that he confesses to lying under oath to Federal Grand juries on numerous occasions and willingly surrenders to authorities.
Okay, you got me. I made that last one up. How about Hillary just confesses to killing Vince Foster over the Rose law firm billing records? 
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Kos Banned & Lovin' It

As predicted, Kos shutdown my diary* - again. This makes three failed attempts to have a civil debate with these democracy killing monsters, you know, in the spirit of the new O' regime. The Kos Overlords also deleted my two, very G rated replies** to some very foul comments. Liberals just don't want anything disturbing their self-sustaining echo chamber. It also didn't matter to them that it's sound wisdom from accomplished opinion makers like Micheal Barone, Victor Davis Hanson and the venerable CATO Institute.


The most ironic aspect of this story is at the bottom of the Kos page is a badge link to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a group dedicated to fighting for "bloggers' rights." I sent off an email to them. We'll see if it bloggers' rights or just liberal bloggers' rights that they are willing to defend. If EFF comes to my aid I'll post their badge (no worries, I won't hold my breath).

So what did we learn? We reinforced the fact that liberals are, and happy to be, the very definition of lemmings, perhaps more a Marxist lemming, sub-species. We know they are willing to do anything to avoid being confronted by uncomfortable facts that disturb their personal Utopias. We know liberals do not fear hypocrisy and in fact, they often embrace it.

* I expect that before too long my diary page will be deleted entirely.
** My two replies to their nasty comments asked only that they deal with the issues I detailed in my post, an incomprehensible concept to these foul mouthed, anti-free speech twits.

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Obama as Zelig Part II

The esteemed Victor Davis Hanson of National Review agrees with my perspective, given the political circumstances, Obama shifts his political ideology like a chameleon to fit his surroundings. In this case, a centrist America, which bodes ill for the far left's agenda.

"Note that the most obvious and embarrassing explanation is taboo and blasphemous: That Obama is a masterful politician who never has had any real ideology or persona other than his own diversity story and history, youth, and charisma that together allow him to be whatever is politically expedient at the time." - Victor Davis Hanson
So is Obama intellectually lazy or just an opportunist?
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Say What?

Shock! "The Brain" offers his assessment of O' Hussein's economic team. This definitely NOT what the left had in mind when they went to bat for Obama.

"Mr. Obama's announcement of his economic team on Monday provided surprisingly positive clarity. He picked as Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the respected, soft-spoken New York Fed president. Mr. Geithner has been a key player with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in confronting the financial crisis. Every major decision in the rescue effort came only after the three agreed.

The National Economic Council director-designee, Larry Summers, is another solid pick. Mr. Summers has been an advocate for trade liberalization, he was the Clinton administration's negotiator for the financial deregulation known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and he even attempted to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the 1990s."- Karl Rove
Liberals must be turning over on their bean curd. The Wall Street Journal even applauds the"welcome signs of continuity" with Gates staying on as Secretary of Defense. "The Gates selection is an implicit endorsement of President Bush's "surge" in Iraq and its military
architect, General David Petraeus."
 

How's that for conservatives having it our way?
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Obama as Zelig

Obama Appointments Reveal His Inexperience, "(Obama) has now created a government staffed by Clinton people, headed by Clinton appointees, and dominated by Hillary herself. He has willingly created the same untenable situation as that into which Lyndon Johnson stepped when JFK was assassinated in 1963... And standing above all his appointees like a president-in-exile, is Hillary Clinton." - Dick Morris


It really is remarkable how Obama has totally abandoned his soaring campaign rhetoric and re-infected the halls of government with Clinton influenza. Why? Is it his inexperience? Fear of the office? Or is Obama really just the Marxist Zelig conservatives believed him to be? The first two points are forgivable, the last one is down right frightening.

Update: Liberals still don't get that they've been shut out. Here's more leftist whining & fuming, "Not a single, solitary, actual dyed-in-the-wool progressive has, as far as I can tell, even been mentioned for a position in the new administration. Not one." - Christopher Hayes

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Space Ramen & Stool

That's probably my most intriguing title to date. I used an ampersand for texture. So let's go.

"Turn up the heat, somebody. The globe is freezing. Even Al Gore is looking for an extra blanket. Winter has barely come to the northern latitudes and already we've got bigger goosebumps than usual. So far the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports 63 record snowfalls in the United States, 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month. Only 44 Octobers over the past 114 years have been cooler than this last one." - The Washington Times
NASA has been jerking us around a lot these days, especially that snake oil salesman-in-chief, Dr. James Hansen, Algore's global warming dream date. Now NASA starts bellowing "thar might be water in them thar moons" and we're suppose bend over and start writing checks? Sorry NASA, the Democrats emptied the nation's bank account and it looks like it's ramen noodles for the foreseeable future. But good luck with that tiresome H20 pick up line. Personally, I don't care if there's water in Charlie Rangle's tax evading stool. If NASA is so hot for water they are welcome to start probing it - at their own expense.

For the record: I am a huge science fiction fan. I get NASA's starry-eyed big picture. But I don't think dropping billions of dollars on expeditions to grope local microbes is valuable science. Nor do I appreciate NASA's proxy work as the left's climate Chicken Little. Dr. James Hansen get caught cooking the climate books was not unexpected but still disappointing. But I do look forward to J.J. Abrams' Star Trek next year.

That's nice, so what? "Plumes spewing from Saturn moon may contain water" - AP
Told you so, "Another Dagger in the Heart of Global Warming Advocacy" - Digital Journal
"Radical Environmentalists Growing Threat in U.S." - NewsMax
"Planet Gore" NRO
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Schadenfreude: The Netroots are Seething!

I'll go even further; these weenie wick'd nut jobs feel so betrayed by Obama and the Democrats that I bet they mount 2010 mid-term revolts. It's also likely that some of the more delusional among them will fire-up congressional recall petitions. Their efforts won't go anywhere, but never underestimate the comedic value of an exploding liberal who has reached crush depth.

"Good for the Democrats for ignoring these people. Allowed to exercise more influence over the party than they already do, the Netroots would have the same disastrous effect that the presidential nomination of George McGovern did in 1972." - James Kirchick, TNR

"With its congressional majority, the Democratic Party has refused to seriously try to end the war, to stop the bailout and to stop the trampling of civil liberties, just to name a few off the top of my head." - David Sirota, OpenLeft

On Sen. Joe Lieberman keeping his chairmanship, "He wasn't sanctioned. And Senate Democrats trying to make that claim are dishonestly trying to cover up the extent of their betrayal of the American people's vote for change." - Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos
Lieberman wasn't sanctioned? Who do these cellar dwelling creeps think they are? The far left has seriously over reached and over estimated their value to the American people. The Democrats apparently understand this and have happily tossed the nutroots overboard without so much as a bub-bye. Hopefully for good (yeah, right).

"Barack Obama doesn't fear the enraged, impotent Netroots" - James Kirchick, The New Republic
I guess tax cuts do work, "Aide: Obama May Keep Bush Tax Cuts" - NewsMax
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The Neverending Obama Birth Certificate Story

Why won't this story go away? If this is a trap set by liberals, it's a lousy one with little payback. Instead of playing gotcha games, if that's what this is, let's please move on. There's plenty on Obama's plate to be bothered with this nagging foolishness. Or is there something more to the story?

Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate
"Does this Barack Obama birth certificate issue bug you because, although improbable, it's possible that he's not a natural born citizen, isn't eligible to be President under the Constitution, and this issue could be bigger than Watergate -- or any other "gate" in history?

... This is a legitimate issue of inquiry because Barack Obama has turned it into one. The growing number of people who demand an answer in conformance with the Constitution are doing their work; the people's watchdogs aren't." - American Thinker
Obama could make this go away but he hides behind Hawaii's Health Department seal. Despite what you may have read, no document has been made available to the public for scrutiny. Why?

Update: "Duo take Obama Birth Challenge to Court" - MSNBC
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MC Misogynist & Rainbows

Imagine that you are gay and you spend your time daydreaming about "hope and change." So much so, that you work your little fanny off to get a skinny black man with Dumbo like ears elected president. In return, the black & Latino community does a 180 and helps to torpedo gay marriage in California. How could this happen in the most enlightened and progressive state in the union? Whodathunk?

The N-bomb is dropped on black passersby at Prop 8 protests
"It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU N*GGER, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FAGGOT, I will call you a n*gger. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple...me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the niggers better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.

Three older men accosted my friend and shouted, "Black people did this, I hope you people are happy!" A young lesbian couple with mohawks and Obama buttons joined the shouting and said there were "very disappointed with black people" and "how could we" after the Obama victory. This was stupid for them to single us out because we were carrying those blue NO ON PROP 8 signs! I pointed that out and the one of the older men said it didn't matter because "most black people hated gays" and he was "wrong" to think we had compassion. That was the most insulting thing I had ever heard. I guess he never thought we were gay." - Pam Spaulding, affiliated with some sort of gay activist site
Sigh. I did chuckle at the West Hollywood resident's threat of violence towards black folks probably twice his size - oh, as if. In any case, is it really a shock that the California hip-hop crowd didn't throw down with Nathan Lane and Ellen DeGeneres? Seriously, has no one has noticed how women are treated in rap videos? Did the gay community really think that MC Misogynist and the Def-gang were down for the rainbow struggle? The gay community is far too trusting of their assumed liberal allies. At least conservatives are up front with you.

I'm hoping that the next title bout will be the unions vs. environmentalists. Don't underestimate Ed Begley Jr. and the environmentalists but the unions do have Snap-on tools. On the other hand, Begley has decades of his composted poo that he can fashion into a crude IED, improvised explosive diarrhea.

Note: I do not condone the use of such gross and hurtful language as quoted in Pam Spaulding's post. I am appalled that the gay and black communities would engage in this sort of hate speech.
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Now, This Cool

If these power plants can further miniaturized as power source for transportation, this will be huge. Sorry, I'm not a believer in rechargeable batteries as a large scale solution. Especially given the current state of our national power grid. I love all things wireless and untethered. But does this technology should put environmentalists in a bit of a quandary? Yep.

Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes
"Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb. The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground...

Other companies are known to be designing micro-reactors. Toshiba has been testing 200KW reactors measuring roughly six metres by two metres. Designed to fuel smaller numbers of homes for longer, they could power a single building for up to 40 years." - Guardian.co.uk
Will environmentalists respond with their typical knee jerk, China Syndrome hysterics? What would Ed Begley Jr. say? What about the promised liberal Skittle power? What will Begley do with all his composted poo? To answer these and other questions, visit the Hyperion homepage here. You'll wish you payed attention in science class.

"Face It. Nukes Are the Most Climate-Friendly Industrial-Scale Form of Energy" - WIRED
Smoke and mirrors subsidies, "Carbon crash hits Europe's emission trading scheme" - AWSJ
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