Take Five

Navy Seals 101

2012-01-05T20:30:00.000-08:00

SWEET...

2012-01-05T19:50:00.000-08:00

This is just too, too cute....

Take Out The Old and Bring In The New

2011-12-30T09:25:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR

The Blaze

Things You Won't See On Your Local-Yokel News Station

2011-12-30T08:25:00.000-08:00

Via Andrew Breitbart

I am pleased to announce the winner of the First Annual Breitbart “Ambiguous Entity of the Year” award.

Our choice was inspired by the most under-reported story of the year: the dark side of the Occupy Wall Street movement, which the media attempted to hide.
From its origins, the Occupy movement has been riddled by rapes, sexual assaults, and countless other serious crimes–many of which were not reported to police because Occupy organizers understood that public police reports and media dispatches about crimes would hurt the movement’s image.

And, as one Occupier noted, “This is a battle over images, not just over the park.”

Had the Tea Party been ravaged by rapes, rampant drug use, vandalism, or assaults, those crimes would not only have been over-reported, they would have stopped the Tea Party in its tracks.

The mainstream media did its best to invent Tea Party misdeeds–imaginary “N-words” and all–where none existed. Prominent celebrities, athletes—even conservative ones, who support the Tea Party’s aims—have kept a low profile in the Tea Party for fear of being judged by the mainstream media’s double standard.

Yet the media-savvy, media-embraced Occupy movement used shout-outs from President Obama, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, rap impresario Russell Simmons, Alec Baldwin, Kanye West, Susan Sarandon, Roseanne Barr, Sean Lennon, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Tim Robbins, and Anne Hathaway to hide what was really going on at the makeshift encampments.

H/T to SondraK

Arigato....

2011-12-26T17:34:00.000-08:00

...Indeed. What a courageous and humble people.

Merry Christmas To Our Heroes

2011-12-25T11:03:00.000-08:00

Gratitude

SondraK

Christmas Eve Dinner And A Movie

2011-12-24T14:11:00.000-08:00

Same Time Next Year may not be a 'classic' but it's one of the best ever...if you want to laugh, cry and just say..aww. This was made in 1978 so the making of this film may be more simple times. The movie takes place in 1951 with a married man and a married woman who begin a relationship, meeting once every five years for a weekend in this little cottage off the California peninsula as they share stories of their personal lives, their crisis, their children, Doris' husband and George's wife, having an affair for more than 20 years.

Getting Ready For Christmas Day

2011-12-23T20:08:00.000-08:00

A Time Of Giving, A Time Of Selflessness

2011-12-23T10:42:00.000-08:00

Huh? Oh. Wait.

First lady Michelle Obama tells Barbara Walters in a 20/20 special that it is "practical" for her to put her self highest on her priority list.

Obama says she found her self slipping "pretty low" on her own priority list because she was "so busy caring for everyone else."

Michelle Obama says she spends time with girlfriends and going out in her attempt to put herself higher on her priority list. Transcript below.

Barbara Walters, ABC News: "Mrs. Obama, you've recently said something that I thought was very interesting for other women to hear. You said 'you put your own self highest on your priority list.' That sounds selfish?"

Michelle Obama: "No, no, it's practical. It's something that I found I needed to do for quite some time, even before the presidency. And I found it other women, in similar situated balancing career family, trying to do it all and a lot of times we just slip pretty low on our own priority list because we're so busy caring for everyone else. And one of the things that I want to model for my girls is investing in themselves as much as they invest in others."

h/t to Weasel Zippers

Michael Ramirez

2011-12-23T09:42:00.001-08:00

Keeping it real.....

Take The Test: Candidate Match Game

2011-12-22T20:26:00.000-08:00

Answer the following questions to see which candidate is most like you.

One Fruit Loop Shy Of A Full Bowl

2011-12-22T20:03:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama is the Fourth Best President in American history!

"I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history."

Gawd, ya just gotta love Bambi. He is such a silly man...just a barrel of laughs!

@ NewsBusters

One Taco Short Of A Combo Plate

2011-12-22T19:27:00.000-08:00

Former President Jimmy Carter has sent North Korea a message of condolence over the death of Kim Jong-il and wished "every success" to the man expected to take over as dictator, according to the communist country's state-run news agency.

A dispatch from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Mr. Carter sent the message to Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-il's son and heir apparent.

"In the message Jimmy Carter extended condolences to Kim Jong Un and the Korean people over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il. He wished Kim Jong Un every success as he assumes his new responsibility of leadership, looking forward to another visit to [North Korea] in the future," the KCNA dispatch read.

Classic

2011-12-18T15:34:00.000-08:00

Salute:

2011-12-17T21:17:00.000-08:00

Boston Tea Party: 238th anniversary.

On December 16, 1773, the taxpayers of Boston had had enough.

The Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum website recounts the story:

On the cold evening of December 16, 1773, a large band of patriots, disguised as Mohawk Indians, burst from the South Meeting House with the spirit of freedom burning in their eyes. The patriots headed towards Griffin’s Wharf and the three ships. Quickly, quietly, and in an orderly manner, the Sons of Liberty boarded each of the tea ships. Once on board, the patriots went to work striking the chests with axes and hatchets. Thousands of spectators watched in silence. Only the sounds of ax blades splitting wood rang out from Boston Harbor. Once the crates were open, the patriots dumped the tea into the sea.

The silence was broken only by the cry of “East Indian” as patriots caught Charles O’Conner filling the lining of his coat with tea. George Hewes removed O’Connor’s coat, threatened him with death if he revealed the identity of any man present, and sent him scurrying out of town. The patriots worked feverishly, fearing an attack by Admiral Montague at any moment. By nine o’clock p.m., the Sons of Liberty had emptied a total of 342 crates of tea into Boston Harbor. Fearing any connection to their treasonous deed, the patriots took off their shoes and shook them overboard. They swept the ships’ decks, and made each ship’s first mate attest that only the tea was damaged.

When all was through, Lendall Pitts led the patriots from the wharf, tomahawks and axes resting on their shoulders. A fife played as they marched past the home where British Admiral Montague had been spying on their work. Montague yelled as they past, “Well boys, you have had a fine, pleasant evening for your Indian caper, haven’t you? But mind, you have got to pay the fiddler yet!”

Montague’s words were to be an omen for the patriots. The party was indeed over for Boston.

H/T to MM

Episode #49 At Daryl's House...

2011-12-17T20:32:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas..

They Report...

2011-11-30T19:21:00.000-08:00

You decide.

An interview by Neil Cavuto with Herman Cain on the future of his campaign and the string of allegations against him.
Part 1

Part2

Hope....Change

2011-11-30T08:51:00.000-08:00

The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date of what President Barack Obama’s America looks like. It is an America where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and destroy the lives of those who have sacrificed greatly.

It is an America where history is rewritten to honor dictators, murderers and thieves. It is an America where violence, racism, hatred, class warfare and murder are all promoted as acceptable means of overturning the American civil society.

It is an America where humans have been degraded to the level of animals:
defecating in public, having sex in public, devoid of basic hygiene. It is an America where the basic tenets of a civil society, including faith, family, a free press and individual rights, have been rejected. It is an America where our founding documents have been shredded and, with them, every person’s guaranteed liberties.

It is an America where, ultimately, great suffering will come to the American people, but the rulers like Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, liberal college professors, union bosses and other loyal liberal/Communist Party members will live in opulent splendor.

It is the America that Obama and the Democratic Party have created with the willing assistance of the American media, Hollywood , unions, universities, the Communist Party of America, the Black Panthers and numerous anti-American foreign entities.

Barack Obama has brought more destruction upon this country in four years than any other event in the history of our nation, but it is just the beginning of what he and his comrades are capable of.

The Occupy Wall Street movement is just another step in their plan for the annihilation of America.

H/T to SondraK

Can't We All Just Get Along?

2011-11-29T20:31:00.000-08:00

Occupy Toronto protesters sobbed when police came in and tore down their makeshift library. Aw...

A Few Fries Short Of A Happy Meal

2011-11-29T12:06:00.000-08:00

President Obama's slow ride down Gallup's daily presidential job approval index has finally passed below Jimmy Carter, earning Obama the worst job approval rating of any president at this stage of his term in modern political history.

Obama's job approval

There's This....

2011-11-29T09:58:00.000-08:00

Hard times generation: Families living in cars.

Scott Pelley brings "60 Minutes" cameras back to central Florida to document another form of family homelessness: kids and their parents forced to live in cars.

....And there's that...

While American families struggle, Obama is busy campaigning for 2012, golfing, and going to basketball games.

Cause you know...the buck stops here.
Obama's failures one date at a time

A Thanksgiving Treat

2011-11-25T19:58:00.000-08:00

There's much to be thankful for. S M I L E...

Best Friends Forever

2011-11-14T09:39:00.000-08:00

DEUCE is a chocolate Labrador retriever who knows exactly which patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington give the best treats, said his owner, Harvey Naranjo. Both he and Deuce are part of the Military Advanced Training Center, a department at Walter Reed that cares for severely disabled veterans.

A certified therapy dog, Deuce assists with rehabilitation and helps relieve stress. He excels at both, said Mr. Naranjo, who brought him to the center three years ago to help the growing number of severely disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Medical technology has given us the opportunity to save more lives with this conflict, but they are surviving devastating injuries,” said Mr. Naranjo, adaptive sports program coordinator and a certified occupational therapy assistant at Walter Reed.

H/T to SondraK

Eric Holder, Have You Apologized To The Family Of Brian Terry?

2011-11-10T13:32:00.000-08:00

It’s tempting to get distracted with the horse race aspect of electoral politics during a primary season. But as pundits talk about “who’s up and who’s down” in the 24 hour news cycle, we must keep our eye on the ball with the Obama administration. They rely on distraction to skirt responsibility, but we’re going to hold them accountable for their corruption and incompetence.

When the stories about Operation Fast and Furious first broke, it sounded too crazy even for this administration.

Why would any government official with an ounce of common sense think it’s a good idea to facilitate the smuggling of thousands of guns into the hands of violent Mexican drug cartels? That’s what Operation Fast and Furious did.

You might think Eric Holder’s Department of Justice was setting up a sting operation in which our federal agents would swoop down and arrest the bad guys the minute the guns traded hands. But that’s not what happened. Eric Holder’s DOJ had American gun dealers sell weapons to “straw purchasers” tied to drug cartels without actually following the movement of the guns as they were then sold to Mexican drug lords. They apparently thought this so-called “gun-walking” operation would help them chart the path of gun smuggling, but they didn’t have a plan to actually control the weapons’ movements as the guns were allowed to “walk” into Mexico. All Holder’s DOJ did was arm violent criminals. What manner of fools do we have working in this administration? What’s next? Supplying nuclear weapons components to the Iranians so we can track their activities?

Fast and Furious isn’t just your typical government incompetence. This is a deadly tragedy. U.S. border agent Brian Terry was gunned down with weapons connected to Holder’s debacle. At least 200 Mexican citizens were also killed by criminals using Fast and Furious weapons. We can only imagine how many more people will be murdered by criminals our government armed.

When an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blew the whistle on this operation, the DOJ leaked sensitive information about him to the press. This week, the former U.S. Attorney for Arizona, who was ousted in the wake of the scandal, admitted to being the leaker.

And where is President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder in all of this? When did he first know about the operation? In his testimony to the House Oversight Committee on May 3, 2011, Holder stated, “I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” But the DOJ’s own documents prove that Holder had been receiving briefings on Fast and Furious for nearly a year before that date. In other words, our government’s top law enforcement official, Eric Holder, lied to the American public. He finally admitted this week to the Senate Judiciary Committee, “In my testimony before the House committee [on May 3], I did say a few weeks. I probably could have said a couple of months. What I said about a few weeks was inaccurate based on what happened.”

When the nation’s highest law enforcement official lies to the American people, he must go.

And if he claims that he didn’t lie, then how else do we explain this situation? He’s either lying or he’s so grossly incompetent and lazy that he didn’t read important life and death briefings from his deputy attorney general and didn’t know about this deadly operation run by people under him. So, which is it? Incompetent, lazy, or lying? No matter which explanation fits, he needs to go.

Holder conceded this week, “I have ultimate responsibility for what happens in the department.” He can prove it by resigning. And if he refuses to resign, then President Obama – with whom the bucks ultimately stop – can prove that he respects honesty, transparency, and accountability in his administration by firing Holder.

I stand with the members of Congress who are calling for Holder’s resignation. I stand with the family members of Brian Terry who are demanding transparency and accountability. Mr. President, where do you stand?

- Sarah Palin

P.S. It can be argued that some elements of this scandal give the appearance of perhaps being intended to be used to infringe on our Second Amendment rights. I invite our President to correct concerned Americans if they’re wrong on this.

Just Sayin'...

2011-11-09T10:14:00.000-08:00

Herman Cain Accuser #2

A woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain in 1999 complained three years later at her next job about unfair treatment, saying she should be allowed to work from home after a serious car accident and accusing a manager of circulating a sexually charged email, The Associated Press has learned.

Karen Kraushaar, 55, filed the complaint while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the Justice Department in late 2002 or early 2003, with the assistance of her lawyer, Joel Bennett, who also handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against Cain in 1999. Three former supervisors familiar with Kraushaar's complaint, which did not include a claim of sexual harassment, described it for the AP under condition of anonymity because the matter was handled internally by the agency and was not public.

To settle the complaint at the immigration service, Kraushaar initially demanded thousands of dollars in payment, a reinstatement of leave she used after the accident earlier in 2002, promotion on the federal pay scale and a one-year fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, according to a former supervisor familiar with the complaint. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Kraushaar told the AP she considered her employment complaint "relatively minor" and she later dropped it.

"The concern was that there may have been discrimination on the job and that I was being treated unfairly," Kraushaar said.

Kraushaar said Tuesday she did not remember details about the complaint and did not remember asking for a payment, a promotion or a Harvard fellowship. Bennett, her lawyer, declined to discuss the case with the AP, saying he considered it confidential. Kraushaar left her job at the immigration service after dropping the complaint in 2003, and she went to work at the Treasury Department.

Details of the workplace complaint that Kraushaar made at the immigration service are relevant because they could offer insights into how she responded to conflicts at work. She now works as a spokeswoman in the office of the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.

More...

Rock The Boat

2011-11-08T15:58:00.000-08:00

Herman Cain issued his strongest denial yet of charges of sexual harassment during a 5 p.m. press conference in Phoenix, Arizona, saying that the harassment alleged by accuser Sharon Bialek "simply didn't happen, and calling Bialek "a troubled woman" put forward by "the Democrat machine" to attack him.

"I have never acted inappropriately with anyone, period," said Cain. "The charges and the accusations I absolutely reject: They simply didn't happen. They simply did not happen."

Americans For Cain: High-Tech Lynching

2011-11-04T21:05:00.000-07:00

“This is a circus. It is a national disgrace. It is a high tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves . It is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order you will be lynched, destroyed caricatured rather than hung from a tree.” - Clarence Thomas

Friday Evening O' So Mellow

2011-11-04T19:12:00.000-07:00

November - Epilepsy Awareness Month

2011-11-04T12:12:00.000-07:00

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Epilepsy affects about 2 million people in the United States and is characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures. Delayed recognition of these seizures and inadequate treatment increase the risk for additional seizures, disability, decreased health-related quality of life and, in rare instances, death. Although epilepsy can occur at any age, the condition is more likely to begin among children less than 2 years of age and adults older than 65 years. As do many who live with other chronic disorders, those with epilepsy often face challenges related to managing epilepsy treatment, symptoms, disability, lifestyle limitations, emotional stress, and stigma.

Now That's What I'm Talk'n About

2011-11-04T09:45:00.000-07:00

Click!

Oakland developer Phil Tagami is used to working behind the scenes to broker some of the biggest deals in town. Late Wednesday, he was using different persuasive skills - holding a loaded shotgun to scare away rioters trying to get into a downtown building.

"We had people who attempted to break into our building," the landmark Rotunda Building on Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall, Tagami said Thursday. He grabbed a shotgun that he usually keeps at home, went down to the ground floor and "discouraged them," he said.

"I was standing there and they saw me there, and I lifted it - I didn't point it - I just held it in my hands," Tagami said. "And I just racked it, and they ran."

h/t to SondraK

Tuesday Afternoon Brain Therapy

2011-11-01T14:11:00.000-07:00

It's mesmerizing....

TAIKOPROJECT first made waves when they became the first American taiko group to win the prestigious Tokyo International Taiko Contest in 2005, beating out all the Japanese taiko groups in attendance. That same year, they were cast in the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial, the first and only national ad campaign to prominently feature taiko. They followed that up with performances in some of America's highest profile events, including the 2009 Academy Awards and the 2011 Grammy Award.

Asian Retro

Clinic Workers Laugh As Ambulance Takes Woman Injured In Botched Abortion

2011-10-28T08:58:00.000-07:00

A new video has surfaced showing workers at an abortion clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin dancing and laughing as they wait for an ambulance to pull up to take a woman to the hospital who has suffered injures from a botched abortion.
The video has employees of Affiliated Medical Services transporting the third woman this year to a local hospital following a failed abortion. The video, from Friday as abortion practitioner Bernie Smith was reportedly on duty, shows AMS staff clearly seen laughing, dancing and even doing the limbo as the woman is taken away.

“Those who lobby for abortion’s legality claim that if abortion were made illegal, women would have to resort to dirty, back-alley abortions,” PLW says. “But the reverse has actually happened — as was sadly illustrated with Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” abortuary in Philadelphia, the dirty, back-alley abortions are legal and no one is watching.”

“This is at least the third time this year an ambulance has arrived at AMS after a botched abortion; sidewalk counselors recorded two separate ambulance visits on April 8,” PLW continues. “Abortion facilities in Milwaukee are not subject to health inspections. Some days the smell of death — blood and flesh — can be smelled wafting out of AMS when the staff open the doors.”

“AMS has been the site of 40 Days for Life for three years now. Sidewalk counselors and prayer warriors are present at AMS year-round as well. 40 Days vigilers were in front of AMS when this occurred,” it concluded. “Women have been taken to Columbia St. Mary’s after botched abortions, forcing a Catholic hospital and staff to clean up the abortionist’s mess.”

HotAir

Eww

2011-10-26T19:58:00.000-07:00

Dirtiest things you touch.

Clarity

2011-10-24T16:45:00.000-07:00

Fox Business News with Neil Cavuto. Steve Wynn, former owner of the Bellagio Casino and Wynn Resorts CEO, comments on Obama administration policies ahead of his visit to Las Vegas, Nevada.

~click~

Democrat Leaders Support OWS Protestors

2011-10-23T09:23:00.001-07:00

@The Rightscoop

A Saturday Morning Verklempt Moment

2011-10-22T09:18:00.000-07:00

(Mel) Gibson presented an American Cinematheque Award to (Robert)Downey Jr., who revealed to the crowd that he had the troubled actor-director onstage for a reason.

Downey and Gibson (who costarred in the 1990 film “Air America”) both struggled with substance abuse and multiple scrapes with the law, but Downey revealed during his at-once funny and poignant speech that Gibson greatly helped the now-clean and sober “Iron Man” star when he was down and out and practically blackballed by the industry:

“When I couldn’t get sober, he told me not to give up hope, and he urged me to find my faith. It didn‘t have to be his or anyone else’s as long as it was rooted in forgiveness. And I couldn’t get hired, so he cast me in a lead of a movie that was actually developed for him. And he kept a roof over my head, and he kept food on the table. And most importantly he said that if I accepted responsibility for my wrongdoings, and if I embraced that part of my soul that was ugly—hugging the cactus, he calls it—he said that if I hugged the cactus long enough I would become a man of some humility and that my life would take on a new meaning, and I did, and it worked.

I admire one who has the faith and strength to literally pull themselves out of the gutter to become a better person for it. These are the kind of stories that are close to me.
H/T The Blaze

Gaddafi Killed

2011-10-20T21:20:00.000-07:00

Maybe now his headstone will show the correct spelling of his name...?

Muammar Gaddafi was killed after being captured by the Libyan fighters he once scorned as "rats," cornered and shot in the head after they overrun his last bastion of resistance in his hometown of Sirte...

Just Sayin'

2011-10-20T17:31:00.000-07:00

An interesting look at the personal lives of past presidents.

~click~

The recent news report that corner-cutting at the U.S. Secret Service has put President Obama's life at greater risk may be the most attention-grabbing disclosure emerging from Ron Kessler's latest book. But there's a lot more in this fascinating exposé, which penetrates that federal agency's longstanding mission and tradition of sworn secrecy.

...But what fuels this high-energy read isn't Kessler's investigation of the Secret Service's training, procedures and strategies — from guaranteeing the safety of the president's food to analyzing daily threats. Instead what turns these pages are the amusing, saucy, often disturbing anecdotes about the VIPs the Secret Service has protected and still protects. The secrets, in other words.

Tenderheart

2011-10-14T10:10:00.000-07:00

You remember the inspiring story of Sarah Churman who was born with a hearing impairment and the video that captured the moment she heard for the first time with the latest in technology for hearing aids.

Here's another kleenex moment in an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. There's something to be said about Ellen DeGeneres' inspiring generosity.

Top 10 Richest Celebrities Supporting Wall Street Protests

2011-10-13T11:39:00.000-07:00

~say again?~

#1 Yoko Ono Net Worth - $500 million.

Ono stated “I love ‘Occupy Wall Street’! John is sending his smile to ‘Occupy Wall Street’. I am sending my love to ‘Occupy Wall Street’. We are all working together. ”

#2 Russell Simmons Net Worth - $325 million

Keep in mind that on top of being a hip-hop mogul Simmons is the founder of a high fee credit card company called UniRush Financial Services.

#3 Roseanne Barr Net Worth - $80 million

Roseanne thinks anyone with over $100 million should be beheaded. Interesting that her net worth is $80 million. I guess she doesnt make “the cut”.

#4 Deepak Chopra Net Worth - $80 million

Chopra said #OWS is turning anger into awareness. The fortune he has made off his fluff filled books has just turned me to anger.

#5 Kanye West Net Worth - $70 million

#6 Alec Baldwin Net Worth - $65 million

#7 Susan Sarandon Net Worth - $50 million

#8 Michael Moore Net Worth - $50 million

#9 Tim Robbins Net Worth - $50 million

#10 Nancy Pelosi Net Worth - $35.5 million

I'm sure this list is going to change over time, so please continue checking back in to see what other hypocrites are added in the days and weeks to come.

Thanks, Brian.

*****Update: The prepaid credit card that Simmons's UniRush offers charges an average monthly fee of $15.90 just to use your own money. I wonder how many of the Wall Street bank-hating protesters he supports know that.

h/t to NewsBusters

Occupy This

2011-10-10T11:57:00.000-07:00

Let's start with Nancy Pelosi.

Nancy Pelosi praised those participating in the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. ”God bless them,” Pelosi said, “for their spontaneity. It’s independent … it’s young, it’s spontaneous, and it’s focused. And it’s going to be effective.”

"Spontaneous," indeed.

These are the shocking scenes that have led some people to accuse the Occupy Wall Street protesters living rough in New York's financial district of creating unsanitary and filthy conditions.

Exclusive pictures obtained by Mail Online show one demonstrator relieving himself on a police car.

Elsewhere we found piles of stinking refuse clogging Zuccotti Park, despite the best efforts of many of the protesters to keep the area clean.

"It's young and it's focused"...

The Beauty Of God

2011-10-05T10:59:00.000-07:00

Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

Watch in HD full screen w/ sound. It is a much better viewing experience.

The Rock vs. Obama With The New Black Panthers

2011-10-04T10:32:00.000-07:00

Mark Levin referenced Andrew Breitbart's report at Big Government detailing how then-candidate Barack Obama shared a podium and marched with Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of the New Black Panthers.

Photographic proof that candidate Barack Obama appeared and marched with the radical 'New Black Panther Party' in 2007.

It amazes me how anyone can excuse this man's absence of conscience and moral intregity.

The Beauty Of Technology

2011-10-01T18:20:00.000-07:00

Her name is Sloan Churman; she’s 29 and has been deaf since the day she was born — until very, very recently. Eight weeks ago she had surgery to have the Esteem hearing aid implanted in her ear. This is the moment when they turned it on. Magic.

If only.....

Hot Air

It Is What It Is

2011-09-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

Via Rightscoop

Whites in America have consistently fought against racism and slavery from the beginning of this country, all the way up to the 1960s and ’70s. They were the ones that were championing the rights of the African Americans.

To Fight For The Right...Without Question Or Pause

2011-09-27T12:47:00.000-07:00

The Great Boatlift of 9/11 became the largest sea evacuation in history. Larger than the evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II where 339,000 British soldiers were rescued over the course of nine days. On 9/11 nearly 500,000 civilians were rescued from Manhattan by boat. It took less than nine hours.

Cosmic Prunes

2011-09-23T15:06:00.000-07:00

Every day people in Washington D.C. to find out their thoughts on Solyndra. For the most part, no one had ever even heard the word before.

So here's a little edumacation on Solyndra, in a nutshell:

. The administration fast-tracked a $535 million loan to Solyndra (that's $535 million taxpayer money).
. Major Solyndra investors were often also major Obama donors.
. Solyndra declared bankruptcy, despite apparently making it appear to the administration as recently as July that the company’s finances were fine.

It's What We Need

2011-09-20T16:31:00.000-07:00

Endearing....

Indeed...

2011-09-13T20:19:00.000-07:00

European astronomers said Monday that they had found what might be the best candidate for a Goldilocks planet yet: a lump of something about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth, circling its star at the right distance for liquid water to exist on its surface — and thus, perhaps, to host life, as we narrowly imagine it.

The planet, known as HD 85512b, is about 36 light-years from here, in the constellation Vela. It orbits its star at about a quarter of the distance that Earth circles the Sun, taking 58 days to make a year. That distance would put it in the star’s so-called habitable zone, if the planet is rocky and has some semblance of an atmosphere — “if everything goes right and you have clouds to shelter you,” as Lisa Kaltenegger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, summarized it.

The Blaze

"You Can Close Your Eyes"

2011-09-11T17:04:00.000-07:00

A moving message by President Bush at the Flight 93 Memorial.

A standing ovation for the President pretty much says it all...

Resilience

2011-09-11T12:24:00.000-07:00

One Nation Under God

2011-09-11T09:51:00.000-07:00

Friday, September 14, 2001

~video~

H/T to SondraK

September 11, 2001

2011-09-10T20:47:00.000-07:00

Tuesday 8:46 a.m. The day my life literally changed.

NEVER FORGET

DISCO

2011-09-02T20:45:00.001-07:00

I Liii-ike It

2011-09-02T19:51:00.000-07:00

“I am asking you, are you able to be as disrespectful to the office of president by simply walking away from something that every member of the Congress is going to attend? Is that also because he’s black?” quizzed Bashir.

(Congressman Joe)Walsh blasted back:

“Oh, gosh, Martin! White, black, brown, yellow, you don’t name it. We have a President right now that is bankrupting this country and destroying job creation in the country and I think it is purely political for him to call a joint session of Congress to announce some jobs plan. I’m going to go back home and speak to the people who really know how to create jobs in this country.”

Joe Walsh amuses me.
NewsBusters

Dang...

2011-09-02T19:21:00.000-07:00

Ever-popular China blog, Shanghaiist, pointed us toward this disturbing video of what appears to be a young girl around the age of 4 or 5 casually driving a small sedan down the streets of a Chinese city.

Even more surprising though is the fact that she is apparently accompanied by two adults – presumably her parents – who encourage her as she navigates early morning traffic (the clock at one point shows 7:00 a.m.).

HotAir

I Could Do That....

2011-09-02T18:49:00.000-07:00

In my Dreams!

It started out as a typical evening for 22-year-old Brooke Collins. She let her dogs out as usual but this time, she said there was a black bear outside who took hold of her dachshund Fudge.

She said she feared for her pet's life and, in an instant, ran over and punched the bear right in the face to make it let go.

"It was all so fast. All I could think about was my dog was going to die," said Collins.

"It was a stupid thing but I couldn't help it," she said. "I know you're not supposed to do that but I didn't want my dog to be killed."

You go girl.

NASCAR Drivers Blow Off White House

2011-09-02T15:28:00.000-07:00

President Barack Obama will honor NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and the 11 other Chase drivers from last year in a White House ceremony on Wednesday – but nearly half of the 2010 playoff contenders won't be there.

NASCAR said Thursday that five drivers – Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart – will not be attending the White House visit due to "schedule conflicts."

They must be very busy people. Regardless of one's political views, the president is still the president – and an opportunity to speak with the leader of the free world is a rare and special one.

Gateway Pundit

Where's The Outrage? Where Is The Media?!

2011-09-02T14:20:00.000-07:00

Disturbing new YouTube videos have surfaced allegedly showing notorious New Black Panther Party member King Samir Shabazz teaching “black survival” training to a small audience — with children sitting in the front row.

In each of the three videos, uploaded June 6, 2011, the man identified as Shabazz graphically demonstrates self-defense tactics using a variety of weapons, including a handgun, a machete and a baseball bat:

...In the next demonstration, the would-be attacker charges Shabazz, who stops him by extending his foot into the attacker’s groin area while simultaneously pulls a gun and points it in his face.

Shabazz next holds the assistant by the throat and demonstrates how to choke off an assailant’s air supply.

“You’re cutting that wind off completely. Backing him up and put two in him,” Shabazz says, putting the gun in the assistant’s abdomen.

The next set of scenarios deal with how to use a machete to defend against a baseball bat-wielding attacker. Shabazz and his assistant mime a bat and machete fight, and Shabazz locks his assistant in position.

“Now, I can either go for his fingers and cut his fingers straight off or I can go straight for his wrist,” he says.

Following through with the knife’s momentum in slow motion, Shabazz demonstrates how he can cut right through his attacker, then holds his head from behind, exposing his neck, and mimes decapitating him.

It’s also worth noting that in a separate video posted in May (where it’s unknown if kids were present), one month before the survival training, Shabazz addressed a group with a speech called “Exhuming of a Nation.” Among other statements, he declared, “F*** whitey‘s Mother’s Day.”

“I see black folks in here. I see no crackers in here today,” Shabazz said. “How do you feel?”

“Black power!” the audience answered.

“You love being black?”

“Yes!”

“Do you love being black?”

Yes!”

Will you die being black?”

“Yes!”

“Will you kill to be black?”

“Yes! Black power!”

“Are you ready for black?”

“Black power!”

H/T to The Blaze

0 Jobs

2011-09-02T11:26:00.001-07:00

The August jobs report is out and it was even worse than last month. The Labor Department said the US economy did not add ANY jobs last month (and the previous two months were revised lower by 58,000), the unemployment rate remained at 9.1 percent and 14 million Americans are still out of work (23 million if you include part-timers who want to be full-time).

That this report comes just before Labor Day weekend is a cruel coincidence. That the report comes days before President Obama delivers a “major” speech about jobs underscores a basic fact: Obama blew it on jobs.

. Jobs Created: NONE (Revisions: -58K, July revised to + 85 from +117,000, June revised to +20K from +46,000)

. Unemployment Rate: 9.1 percent (unchanged from July)

. Under-Employment Rate (marginally-attached, part-time): 16.2 percent (from 16.1 percent in July)

. Total Number of Unemployed: 14 million (from 13.9 million)...

Jill Schlesinger

Smart Phone

2011-09-01T11:14:00.001-07:00

This app is a countdown to either Barack Obama's second inauguration or his final days as President of the United States. In addition, the application will download and update the following important voter metrics:

Approval Rating
Public Debt
Unemployment Level
Gasoline Cost Per Gallon
Housing Price Index

HotAir

In A Nutshell

2011-08-30T12:15:00.000-07:00

Via American Thinker. Read it all, it's well worth it. How can one deny common sense?

The left are now wringing their hands fearing their agenda is overripe, blaming everyone else for their own spoiled pickling. While Obama's sinking prospects for re-election are disquieting, the real source of liberals' despair is their sudden, unexpected realization that the progressive agenda is dead in its tracks and will likely be in full retreat after 2012.

Obama is finished, but the demise of their identity politician is neither the main event nor surprising. He was a lame duck after he returned from Copenhagen empty handed in September 2009, expecting the mere presence of his electro-magnetic glow would secure the 2016 summer Olympics for Chicago.

He cannot claim a single success. His resume is a bibliography of failure. His signature achievement, the dubious namesake ObamaCare, was designed by someone else. Its central feature, the individual insurance mandate, is destined to be overturned by the Supreme Court.

We will have our fill of post mortems, ad nauseam, about how The One broke their hearts; his considerable skills, now considered overrated, were just no match for the enormity of the clean- up needed after Bush's mess; a victim of his opponents' entrenched racism.

Obama was only a convenient vessel, a mere tool. But enough about Obama; even the Congressional Black Caucus is ready to Move On.

...The liberal vision of the ideal state is fat, sloppy and lazy. Why exert yourself if someone else will buy you food stamps and school lunches? Why bother learning to read, write, do simple algebra, or acquire any employable skills when you'll get free health care and subsidized housing? Why eat right and keep fit when obesity and diabetes is a protected disability?

Americans are finally fed up with the Democrats' value system: no personal accountability; moral equivalence; belief that success is derived from exploiting everybody else; everybody else is a hapless victim; we are all racists and xenophobes, consigned to endless acts of contrition where reparations and open borders would be the only relief.

More...

FoxNation

NEVER FORGET

2011-08-29T10:53:00.001-07:00

Next month, America will honor the anniversary of September 11, 2001, when terrorists killed nearly 3,000 of our fellow citizens. In the days after 9/11, Americans stood together as one, setting aside partisan fervor and recognized a common enemy in Islamist terrorist groups, particularly al-Qaeda. National security was rightfully restored as our nation’s highest priority.

As the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 approaches, it’s important to honor the victims and the heroes of that day by not only remaining on guard, but promising we will never quit this important fight until the threat no longer exists.

Leading up to September 11, The Heritage Foundation will be hosting a series of events and releasing critical research and analysis designed to educate America on the remaining threat and offer the right policy course to keep us safe.

We will also be asking Americans to join us in a display of unity once again. On Sunday, September 11, 2011, we hope that every neighborhood across the nation is flooded with American flags celebrating the lives of those we lost in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania and the heroism we witnessed, while also reminding each other that the fight to prevent another attack is not over.

The Day My Life Changed

2011-08-29T09:09:00.000-07:00

Greg Hengler captured this emotional moment from the National Geographic special last night that featured George Bush giving his recollection of 9/11 and the days immediately afterward. This clip gives the backstory to Bush’s famous declaration from Ground Zero that the people who destroyed the towers would soon hear from an enraged United States of America. Bush describes the scene as being something from Hell, and that he sensed a “palpable blood lust” to avenge the deaths of thousands of Americans:

I missed the first showing on National Geographic but thank goodness I caught the second. It was a moment in my life that changed it forever.
h/t to Hot Air

Standing Guard In The Face Of Hurricane Irene

2011-08-27T20:55:00.000-07:00

As Hurricane Irene barrels her way toward the mid-Atlantic and up the East Coast, members of The Old Guard continue their vigilance at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
...A lone Tomb Sentinel, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), walks his tour in humble reverence during Hurricane Irene in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Aug 27.
Members of The Old Guard have guarded the Tomb every second, of every day regardless of weather or holidays since April 6, 1948.

The Blaze

Michael Ramirez

2011-08-27T20:08:00.000-07:00

It's everyone's fault but Obama's. A leader...he's not.

~the blame fault line~

'Tsk,Tsk,Tsk'.....

2011-08-27T16:39:00.000-07:00

Shame on you...

Two days after Steve Jobs announced his resignation as the CEO of Apple, gossip website TMZ published a photo purportedly showing Jobs, a pancreatic cancer survivor, looking gaunt and gravely ill.

Internet outlets seized on the photo Friday. However, in a Saturday morning post, website Reddit claimed to expose the photograph as a doctored fraud.

The Blaze

Woo-Hoo!

2011-08-25T17:21:00.000-07:00

It's The Big Lebowski reunion!

Watch live streaming video from thebiglebowski at livestream.com

~best scene ever~

Getting Kinky

2011-08-25T15:37:00.001-07:00

KINKY FRIEDMAN: Hell, Yes! I’d Vote For Rick Perry! “These days, of course, I would support Charlie Sheen over Obama. Obama has done for the economy what pantyhose did for foreplay.”

Plus this: “So would I support Rick Perry for president? Hell, yes! As the last nail that hasn’t been hammered down in this country, I agree with Rick that there are already too damn many laws, taxes, regulations, panels, committees, and bureaucrats. While Obama is busy putting the hyphen between ‘anal’ and ‘retentive’ Rick will be rolling up his sleeves and getting to work.”

SondraK

Cruisin'..for a...Bruisin'

2011-08-17T18:34:00.000-07:00

In New Hampshire this morning Gov. Rick Perry responded to President Obama's suggestion that he "be more careful" about what he says.

"Yesterday, the President said I needed to watch what I say. I just want to respond back, if I may. Mr. President, actions speak louder than words. My actions as Governor are helping create jobs in this country. The President's actions are killing jobs," GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry said at a breakfast on Wednesday morning.

SondraK

LOL

2011-08-14T10:18:00.000-07:00

Sweet...

Friday Afternoon Recess

2011-08-12T14:47:00.000-07:00

Appeals Court Rules Obamacare Mandate Unconstitutional

2011-08-12T14:33:00.000-07:00

President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law suffered a setback on Friday when an appeals court ruled that it was unconstitutional to require all Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty.

he U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, ruled 2 to 1 that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but it unanimously reversed a lower court decision that threw out the entire law.

The legality of the individual mandate, a cornerstone of the healthcare law, is widely expected to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Opponents have argued that without the mandate, which goes into effect in 2014, the entire law falls...

The RightScoop
Keeping fingers crossed....

Christiane Amanpour's Joy

2011-08-11T17:47:00.000-07:00

(Moonbattery)Last year the New York Slimes did a puff piece on left-wing propagandist Christiane Amanpour (formerly of CNN, now ABC), which included photos of her home. Recognize the oversized picture that dominates her favorite room? She says it’s her favorite item in the apartment, because “It gives me joy every time I walk in my door.”

Here’s a clue: like Amanpour, the painting comes from Iran. Here’s another clue:

Here's Your Sign.....

2011-08-11T16:40:00.000-07:00

SondraK

Amazing Achievements Through Gene Therapy: Destroys Leukemia In 3 Patients

2011-08-11T14:29:00.001-07:00

Scientists are reporting the first clear success with a new approach for treating leukemia — turning the patients' own blood cells into assassins that hunt and destroy their cancer cells.

They've only done it in three patients so far, but the results were striking: Two appear cancer-free up to a year after treatment, and the third patient is improved but still has some cancer. Scientists are already preparing to try the same gene therapy technique for other kinds of cancer.

"It worked great. We were surprised it worked as well as it did," said Dr. Carl June, a gene therapy expert at the University of Pennsylvania. "We're just a year out now. We need to find out how long these remissions last."

It involved three men with very advanced cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL. The only hope for a cure now is bone marrow or stem cell transplants, which don't always work and carry a high risk of death.

Scientists have been working for years to find ways to boost the immune system's ability to fight cancer. Earlier attempts at genetically modifying bloodstream soldiers called T-cells have had limited success; the modified cells didn't reproduce well and quickly disappeared.

That resulted in armies of "serial killer" cells that targeted cancer cells, destroyed them, and went on to kill new cancer as it emerged. It was known that T-cells attack viruses that way, but this is the first time it's been done against cancer, June said....

Fox News

Too Much Of Summin'

2011-08-09T21:00:00.000-07:00

Fallen Heroes

2011-08-09T20:36:00.000-07:00

Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Usama bin Laden.

Photos of fallen Navy SEALs here.

Malignant Narcissism

2011-08-09T19:57:00.000-07:00

Via Bret Stephens of The Wall Street Journal. This is worth reading it all.

The aircraft was large, modern and considered among the world's safest. But that night it was flying straight into a huge thunderstorm. Turbulence was extreme, and airspeed indicators may not have been functioning properly. Worse, the pilots were incompetent. As the plane threatened to stall they panicked by pointing the nose up, losing speed when they ought to have done the opposite. It was all over in minutes.

Was this the fate of Flight 447, the Air France jet that plunged mysteriously into the Atlantic a couple of years ago? Could be. What I'm talking about here is the Obama presidency.

When it comes to piloting, Barack Obama seems to think he's the political equivalent of Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager and—in a "Fly Me to the Moon" sort of way—Nat King Cole rolled into one. "I think I'm a better speech writer than my speech writers," he reportedly told an aide in 2008. "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm . . . a better political director than my political director."

On another occasion—at the 2004 Democratic convention—Mr. Obama explained to a Chicago Tribune reporter that "I'm LeBron, baby. I can play at this level. I got game."

Of course, it's tempting to be immodest when your admirers are so immodest about you. How many times have we heard it said that Mr. Obama is the smartest president ever? Even when he's criticized, his failures are usually chalked up to his supposed brilliance. Liberals say he's too cerebral for the Beltway rough-and-tumble; conservatives often seem to think his blunders, foreign and domestic, are all part of a cunning scheme to turn the U.S. into a combination of Finland, Cuba and Saudi Arabia.
I don't buy it. I just think the president isn't very bright.

Socrates taught that wisdom begins in the recognition of how little we know. Mr. Obama is perpetually intent on telling us how much he knows. Aristotle wrote that the type of intelligence most needed in politics is prudence, which in turn requires experience. Mr. Obama came to office with no experience. Plutarch warned that flattery "makes itself an obstacle and pestilence to great houses and great affairs." Today's White House, more so than any in memory, is stuffed with flatterers.

Much is made of the president's rhetorical gifts. This is the sort of thing that can be credited only by people who think that a command of English syntax is a mark of great intellectual distinction. Can anyone recall a memorable phrase from one of Mr. Obama's big speeches that didn't amount to cliché? As for the small speeches, such as the one we were kept waiting 50 minutes for yesterday, we get Triple-A bromides about America remaining a "Triple-A country." Which, when it comes to long-term sovereign debt, is precisely what we no longer are under Mr. Obama.

Then there is Mr. Obama as political tactician. He makes predictions that prove false. He makes promises he cannot honor. He raises expectations he cannot meet. He reneges on commitments made in private. He surrenders positions staked in public. He is absent from issues in which he has a duty to be involved. He is overbearing when he ought to be absent. At the height of the financial panic of 1907, Teddy Roosevelt, who had done much to bring the panic about by inveighing against big business, at least had the good sense to stick to his bear hunt and let J.P. Morgan sort things out. Not so this president, who puts a new twist on an old put-down: Every time he opens his mouth, he subtracts from the sum total of financial capital.

Then there's his habit of never trimming his sails, much less tacking to the prevailing wind. When Bill Clinton got hammered on health care, he reverted to centrist course and passed welfare reform. When it looked like the Iraq war was going to be lost, George Bush fired Don Rumsfeld and ordered the surge.

Mr. Obama, by contrast, appears to consider himself immune from error. Perhaps this explains why he has now doubled down on Heckuva Job Geithner. It also explains his insulting and politically inept habit of suggesting—whether the issue is health care, or Arab-Israeli peace, or change we can believe in at some point in God's good time—that the fault always lies in the failure of his audiences to listen attentively. It doesn't. In politics, a failure of communication is always the fault of the communicator.

Much of the media has spent the past decade obsessing about the malapropisms of George W. Bush, the ignorance of Sarah Palin, and perhaps soon the stupidity of Rick Perry. Nothing is so typical of middling minds than to harp on the intellectual deficiencies of the slightly less smart and considerably more successful.

But it takes actual smarts to understand that glibness and self-belief are not sufficient proof of genuine intelligence. Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.

Stupid is as stupid does...Indeed. He never even ran a candy store.

(I've highlighted in bold)

TOOT....

2011-08-09T19:48:00.000-07:00

...And on a lighter note...

...why not distract yourself from the economic doom that is now upon us with this clip of Rep. Barney Frank letting out what sounded like a giant fart tonight while chatting with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC? As you'll see, his hips most definitely don't lie.

Wheeee..

2011-08-05T08:33:00.000-07:00

~Jell-Obama~

White House officials offered no details about the Rose Garden barbecue and birthday party thrown for President Obama last night. No menu, no guest list, the event did not appear on his official schedule.

Ann Compton reports that the Obama family paid for the celebration out of its own pocket.

Their silence might be so as to not create the impression that the president was celebrating just hours after the Dow Jones fell 500 points. Politicians hate to be portrayed as fiddling while Rome burns, Nero-style.

Food stamp use rises to record 45.8 million

Time to Say It: Double Dip Recession May Be Happening

Faber: Brace for a Global 'Reboot' and a War

A cry for help because he can't find a job

Two-year Treasury yield drops to a record low

Debt What?..To Hell With That Bro...Party On Garth!

2011-08-03T09:11:00.000-07:00

As he signed off emergency legislation today to prevent the government defaulting on its debt, President Obama spoke of the need to work together for Americans who cannot 'make ends meet'.

So, with hindsight, rushing off for a lavish 50th birthday party in his honour - starring Dreamgirls singer Jennifer Hudson - was probably not very sensitive...

H/T to FoxNation

Tea-rrorists.....Rly?

2011-08-03T08:26:00.000-07:00

Fox News put together a panel of small business owners who also affiliate themselves with the Tea Party, one of which is a Cuban man who immigrated to this country 50 years ago to get away from socialism. While all of them took offense at being labeled as terrorists, the man from Cuba says he’s seen this playbook before and he never thought he would see freedom in jeopardy here in America.

Hat Tip to The Rightscoop

Kewl

2011-08-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

As far as summer fashion goes, clothes with built-in electric fans leave a little something to be desired.

But Hiroshi Ichigaya has managed to turn his breezy invention into the must-have item of the summer, thanks to sweltering temperatures and a power shortage stemming from the triple disasters that hit Japan in March. The founder of Kuchofuku, or "air-conditioned clothing" in Japanese, says sales for his clothes have increased 10-fold. Phones at his office haven't stopped ringing.

You Silly People

2011-08-02T20:41:00.000-07:00

Bill O'Reilly and Charles Krauthammer debate on far left's attacks on Tea Partiers.

FoxNation

Just, Don't Eat The Yellow Snow

2011-08-02T20:22:00.000-07:00

Breitbart

What He Said

2011-08-02T17:13:00.000-07:00

There's one thing that I think is funny about this. These are people who don't call REAL terrorists..."terrorists."

Bingo!

2011-07-31T19:00:00.000-07:00

A visualization of United States debt:

Ten Thousand Dollars
$10,000 - Enough for a great vacation or to buy a used car.
Approximately one year of work for the average human on earth.

One Million Dollars
$1,000,000 - Not as big of a pile as you thought, huh?
Still this is 92 years of work for the average human on earth.

One Billion Dollars
$1,000,000,000 - You will need some help when robbing the bank.
Now we are getting serious!

15 Trillion Dollars
$15,000,000,000,000- Unless the U.S. government fixes the budget, US national debt (credit card bill) will topple 15 trillion by Christmas 2011.

Statue of Liberty seems rather worried as United States national debt passes 20% of the entire world's combined GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
In 2011 the National Debt will exceed 100% of GDP, and venture into the 100%+ debt-to-GDP ratio that the European PIIGS have (bankrupting nations).

The Beauty and the Beast

2011-07-31T17:50:00.000-07:00

Cool Capital Hill Time Lapse Video.

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

NBC will air a “Dateline” documentary tonight looking at life and the behind the scenes action on Capital Hill called “Taking the Hill: Inside Congress.” To promote this broadcast NBC has released this cool video of time lapse images of the Capital.

h/t to The Blaze

It Is What It Is

2011-07-25T08:11:00.000-07:00

In the weird world that is Washington, men and women say things daily, hourly, even minutely, that they know deep down are simply not true. Inside the Beltway, we all call those utterances “rhetoric.”

But across the rest of the country, plain ol’ folk call ‘em lies. Bald-faced (even bold-faced) lies. Those folks have a tried-and-true way of determining a lie: If you know what you’re saying is patently false, then it’s a lie. Simple.

And lately, the president has been lying so much that his pants could burst into flames at any moment.

His late-evening news conference Friday was a tour de force of flat-out, unadulterated mendacity — and we’ve gotten a first-hand insider’s view of the president’s long list of lies....

h/t to Drudge

Fool Me Once.....

2011-07-20T10:38:00.000-07:00

President Obama used a series of anecdotes about insurance companies ruthlessly dropping coverage for customers because of pre-existing conditions. He even said his own mother had to fight her health insurance company on her death bed. It turns out most of these stories were false, including the one about his own mother.

h/t to Breitbart

Rocky Mountain Way

2011-07-20T10:05:00.000-07:00

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) makes it clear that he considers Chris Matthews a "bully" and responds to his tactics with a slew of verbal knuckle sandwiches.

h/t to Townhall

Hey Nineteen

2011-07-17T14:00:00.000-07:00

It's our turn. again...

A Thousand Kisses

2011-07-14T19:02:00.000-07:00

“My husband has been stationed in Germany and the kids and I couldn’t go with him. This picture is of him meeting our second born, Talon, for the very first time. When my husband got off the airplane he ran straight towards us and immediately grabbed the baby from me. This was the reaction.”

The Blaze

Trailer Trash In A Suit And Tie

2011-07-12T11:51:00.000-07:00

CNN's host Piers Morgan yuck it up with Bill Maher's comment on Sarah Palin and Michele Bachman.

Morgan: If you had a choice, gun to your head, which one is it? Palin or Bachmann?

Maher: I would need a gun to my head. I hope Sarah Palin gets in so that they split the MILF vote.

If you're like me and have no clue what MILF is, it's here. *spit*
Welcome to the Twenty-first Century.

Oorah!..

2011-07-11T10:17:00.000-07:00

Sgt. Scott Moore, of the 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, took to YouTube last week to make a fanciful request: he wants movie star Mila Kunis, from “That 70s Show” and “Black Swan,” to be his date to the Marine Corps. Ball on November 18th in Greenville, North Carolina. At the time, it may have been just a dream. But now, Moore’s dream has come true.

Kunis nodded. “I’ll do it,” she confirmed.

Sweeet...

The Blaze

Dr. Denis Leary Comments..

2011-07-08T14:16:00.001-07:00

"If my mom knew she coulda duct-taped us to death and only done 4 years I wouldnt be tweeting this right now."

"Impeachable Act"

2011-07-08T08:46:00.000-07:00

Via Mark Levin:

Should he attempt to seize explicit Congressional power, we’ve got to make a case that we don’t like dictators in this country and that we will not accept dictators in this country. There’s not even a colorable argument that can be made that justifies the President of the United States seizing for himself the authority to “borrow money on the credit of the United States.” And should Chuck Schumer continue to urge this and should the President do it, then Chuck Schumer should be expelled from the United States Senate when the Republicans take it back over as they will.

Rep. Tim Scott: "My position is, that is an impeachable act."

I hate to sound like a Debbie Downer, but it's a damn shame the media's got Barry's back. And with that, this could never happen.
Rightscoop

...And God Created The Heavens And The Earth

2011-07-07T09:21:00.000-07:00

Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

The Blaze

Celebrating Independence Day, Family Style

2011-07-06T20:07:00.000-07:00

Thank you Kiki and Kimo. Proud to be an American.