Thursday, February 28, 2008
Headline OF THE week
ready?
“Everybody has understood that Iran is the number one power in the world" Ahmadinejad said in a speech tofamilies who lost loved ones in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.Basiji
Ahmadinejad is due to travel to Iraq on Sunday in the first visit by a president of the Islamic republic to its western neighbour.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
How?
I’ll tell ya how
The Angry White Man is not a metrosexual, a homosexual or a victim. Nobody like him drowned in Hurricane Katrina — he got his people together and got the hell out, then went back in to rescue those too helpless and stupid to help themselves...
How did we get from the Founding Fathers to a bunch of people who just stand on their roofs with a big “HELP!” sign?
This is how:
[CA] Assembly member Bill Maze, R-Visalia... has introduced legislation that would make it illegal for motorists to keep pets on their laps.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
"*Not* Sheep"
He earned his name...
While superdelegates were originally conceived as a check on the ability of a dark horse candidate subtle... to run away with the nomination, the superdelegates have grown into a massive force.
...In 1988, the Rules and Bylaws Committee stripped DNC members of their superdelegate status. Though the status was later restored, do you know who led the charge ...
Harold Ickes.
“Yes, I stripped them, and I was working for Jesse Jackson at the time and we thought automatic [i.e., super] delegates represented too much of an institutional interest and they didn’t recognize the qualities of someone like him,” Ickes
Debate Open Thread
*shudder*
I learned a coupla things:
-- We in heap big doo doo.
--ObamaNation has been too busy campaigning to become POTUS so he can surrender in Iraq to conduct the hearings he is supposed to in the Senate on the effectiveness of the Afghanistan campaign?
-- Hillary is a snake. Being a snake works sometimes.
[small>ok - so that’s not new. Still: useful to keep in mind]
--ObamaNation is slicker ‘n Bill. He seems almost lifelike in his ability to mimic—nay, appear as a Gentleman.
-- Hillary would’ve been able to create 20,000 [or was it 200,000?] jobs in NY IF Algore had been POTUS.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Clink... Clunk.... Clod.
the bits fall into place
LONDON A British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama’s fundraiser just weeks before an imprudent land deal that has returned to haunt the presidential contender, an investigation by The Times discloses.
The money transfer raises the question of whether funds from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain’s wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago.
A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama’s bagman Antoin “Tony” Rezko on May 23 2005. Mr Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.
Three weeks later, Mr Obama bought a house on the city’s South Side while Mr Rezko’s wife bought the garden plot next door from the same seller on the same day, June 15.
...It is unclear how Mrs Rezko could have afforded the downpayment of $125,000 and a $500,000 mortgage for the original $625,000 purchase of the garden plot at 5050 South Greenwood Ave.
In a sworn statement a year later, Mrs Rezko said she got by on a salary of $37,000 and had $35,000 assets. Mr Rezko told a court he had “no income, negative cash flow, no liquid assets, no unencumbered assets [and] is significantly in arrears on many of his obligations.”
...Mr Rezko ... has bankrolled Mr Obama’s political career since his first run for the Illinois state senate in the mid-1990s…
Mr Obama has publicly sought to atone for his closeness to Mr Rezko, paying $150,000 to charity to distance himself from a man accused of political corruption.
...The spotlight fell on Mr Rezko’s ties to Mr Auchi last month when the Chicago businessman was thrown in jail for violating his bail terms by failing to declare a different $3.5 million loan from the British billionaire, made in April 2007. Prosecutors feared Mr Rezko, who travels widely in the Middle East, might flee to a country without an extradition treaty such as his birthplace of Syria.
...According to court documents, Mr Rezko’s lawyer said his client had “longstanding indebtedness” to Mr Auchi’s GMH. By June 2007 he owed it $27.9 million.
Under a Loan Forgiveness Agreement described in court, Mr Auchi lent Mr Rezko $3.5 million in April 2005 and $11 million in September 2005, as well as the $3.5 million transferred in April 2007.
That agreement provided for the outstanding loans to be “forgiven” in return for a stake in the 62-acre Riverside Park development.
...An aide to Mr Obama said he did attend an event at the Four Seasons at which Mr Rezko was present but does not remember meeting Mr Auchi. “He shook a lot of hands and met a lot of people,” the aide said. “We do not remember individual people.”
...Mr Auchi’s lawyer said the purpose of the Fintrade Services loan was to “assist the financial position” of a pizzeria company called AR Pizza, in which GMH held a shareholding. He said the loan had since been repaid in the form of a greater stake in the Chicago 62-acre land project ...
That’sa some spicy pizza.”
dork.
The Lovely Boazo
With Ammo Like This?!?!?
"But he doesn’t wear a flag pin!!!"
The {R} party is a bunch of doofi. They’re blathering on about the “dressed” foto the flag lapel pin and the hand-over-heart incident when all they need to do is 30 second fiskings of ObamaNation’s own words!
See for yourself:
OR
*clicky*clicky*
“unproven missile systems”?!? Was he watching last week?!?!?
“Not weaponize space”?!?!? somebody explain a gravity well to this dork.
“seek a world without nuclear weapons” oughta *diplomatically* speak to Almondinnerjacket and the ChiComs about that. PootyPoot won’t return your phone call.
ToDaZeD Obamanation Report
Headline Nooz
Iran’s Ah[phlegm]madinijihad has just announced that he renounces all nuclear development in his country, we hope, and that he is ready to hold talks with the President of the United States and the leaders of Israel on the creation of a Palestinian homeland within the borders of Iran. Each new citizen of the newly formed Iranian democracy will, we hope, be given a home, car and business of his own.
In domestic news, the economy has responded very well, we hope, to the 400% increase in taxes paid by each citizen with the DOW increasing 5,000 points this morning. Unemployment numbers are down to .01%, we hope, in response to the new jobs to be promised by the, we hope, coming administration.
In Aimes Iowa, a kitteh was stuck in a tree. A passerby, who would only give his initials to reporters—“B.O.”—rescued it and returned it to the owner, we hope, a little girl who wept tears of joy.
we now return you to your regularly scheduled reality. [we hope]
The Anti-Hillaryobamanation
story of an American
Alone on a dark gritty street, Adam Shepard searched for a homeless shelter. He had a gym bag, $25, and little else. ...His goal: to have a furnished apartment, a car, and $2,500 in savings within a year.
[/Great American Misery Tour]
Changes at Hot Air
oughta be interesting...
Bryan is moving on to produce for Laura Ingram and Ed Morrissey will be closing down Captain’s Quarters to join Hot Air.
Well done, Michelle.
The Experience Question
answered?
Barakk in 2004:
Q: “Why have you ruled that out - running nationally [in 2008]?”
uu..ee..yanno...I am a believer in knowing what you’re doing when you’re applying for a job ...uh… and I think that, if I were to serioiusly consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the Senate.
Now there’s some people who might be comfortable doing that, uh, but I’m not one of those people."
er..uh..mmm… not so much.
Oh.... My!
"shameful offensive fear-mongering"
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
ToDaZeD Obamanation Report
traffic
We hope all roads are clear with traffic flowing at just over the posted speed limits. Everywhere! All trains, busses and shuttles are running on time—or a little early—and we hope nothing stands in your way on your commute to work, play shop or home!
We hope you will enjoy your day!
we now return you to your regularly scheduled reality. [we hope]
Sunday Night Quickie
8 seconds per question!
3… 2… 1… *click*
LLoyd
26—beat that, sukkahs!!
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Scratching the Surface
depth of pride
[Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis at Princeton University] “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community" I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.
Didja ever think, Michelle, that your feeling of “not belonging” might not have been due to the *black* thing?
Just, yanno, something to think about.
A story of the times
chu… chu… chu… changes....
I had a lunch meeting with an old, dear friend whom I hadn’t seen in a gagillion years [different coasts] We’ve kept in touch thru emails and phone calls and when we met it was like no time had passed at all—we fell into conversation like we’d had coffee last week. It was Great Fun!
But that’s not important now the story.
We met in a place generally, sorta half-way between where he’s staying for his business trip and The Country&trade—Moron County. He had a craving for some only-to-be-found-on-the-West-Coast delicacies so we sought out a shop, found a fone book, suffering the derisive, uncomprehending looks of the post-teens at the counter [a what???][guess I shoulda used my cell fone or sumpthin’?] and set off to where I thought this place oughta be.
Predictably, psychic navigation got us only so far and I stopped at a 7/11 to seek further *cough* clarification. Bemember - by now we were in Honkey Town the home of the Limousine Liberal, Mill Valley. In that whole, jammed 7/11 I found not one [1] person who could speak sufficient English to answer—hell, comprehend—my question, “Where is Belvedere Ave?”
Finally, a lone hippydippy woman - a customer - wandered out of an aisle and gave me an answer. Not a particularly good answer, but closer than I was.
After our second interlude of scenic byways [and it was scenic—I’ll give ‘em that] we returned to the area of the freeway where my eye lit on certain haven: an actual Tobacconist Shop. Delighted, I remarked to my pal, “There’s our answer.” Puzzled, “Why ya say that?” I, “Contraband store.”
And, yep: “Go to this light,” said the pipe-smoking proprietor, “and once you’ve made the 90° turn, it’ll be right in front of you.”
And it was.
PS Hope that burst pipe thing goes alright…
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