Cartoon time (I hope Innocent don't get farking pissed off)

didnt Davis wet the bed last year when bush nixed it?

Who had a civil discussion? lol.

Talk about an empty suit.....

I'm still waiting on change....

I have yet to hear about a change in foreign policy, the abolition of the Dept. of Homeland Security, the repeal of the Patriot Act, etc.

Obama will use these various abominations for his own agenda.

I haven't seen Hondo level a single curse, nor make anything approaching a real insult.

New tax hikes are a change. Cutting deductions are a change.

The best part about Obama being president is now I'm rich, and I don't make any more money than I used to.

Heh.

I'm Rick James, bitch.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1307285/chap...sode_full_pt_1/

It never gets old....

Gingrich raps Obama for 'big-government' budget

Associated Press, by Staff
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...ch-budget_N.htm

2/27/2009 10:03:46 PM


Washington - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is labeling President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget plan a ''higher-tax, weaker-economy, fewer-jobs'' blueprint that should trigger the most crucial policy debate since 1980. The leading Republican said he he actually agrees with much of Obama's rhetoric, but that there's a ''gap between the words and reality.'' Gingrich said there are pieces of Obama's budget that are ''doable,''

Born again fiscal conservatives who lost their place at the banquet of hogs.

and you have a list of my lies I'm sure.

Oh, that's right...you booted me for lying.

YEEAHH!


WHAT??

I pray you wet the bed uncontrollably in your old age, you sack of poop!

Child of a lesser god?

Look who is in the background checking her out.

Shelley 'bama, Hater-in-Chief.

You got a timeout for an hour for changing somebody else's words, while he smoothed things over with the other poster.

Bill Clinton's secret upskirt camera?

Tom knew his stuff...

Why do you think they call it Uncle Tom's cabin?

So she's good for something.



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http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/i...829125220090228

Power has it's own special high. Few drugs can match it.

Gaff??

He was clearly warning Germany to keep its sheit together.

Uhhh... yeah.

He never said that. At all.

As if Edison invented the light bulb.

And by day.

BS.

Now it's the GOPs turn?

Allow me. Busted.

NS.

Good call.

I'd rather have pork rinds.

I'd rather not have pork rinds.

Chitlins must be bigger in the south. I'll stick to barbecued pork ribs any time, but just for a treat. Pork rinds aren't exactly health food. I hear Republicans eat the baked variety.

Yes, chitlins is bigger in the south.

The dude who worked the chitlins room in Spamtown was locked in for his shift.

Everything used but the oink. Enuf to make one a vegan.

One of our employees had tripe and some sort of entrails at a barbecue once. That was enough for me. Mexicans eat it all too. Poor cultures do what they have to to survive, and chances are rich cultures likely look down on them. It's possible both can learn something from the experience of co-mingling. Poor cultures about getting richer, and rich cultures about getting by on less when times are tough.

Jews have been thru poor times.

Chitlins have never been kosher.


OK, use everything. Call it sausage.

I try not to think about what may be in that chorizo sausage in my breakfast tacos.

It's better that way.

Yes, yes it is.

Last words at Masada.

"there's nothing left but chitlins"


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Dunno about bbq entrails but menudo is great stuff...add some oregano, chili flakes, onions, and cilantro...just don't get no better than this.

Oh yeah, poor starving people of the Jewish faith have never broken kosher. Yah right . . .

Obama kicks up White House entertaining


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Mar 2, 6:58 AM (ET)

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House is the place to be on Wednesdays.

Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America's head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays.

The stately East Room, where portraits of George and Martha Washington adorn the walls, was transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented Stevie Wonder with the nation's highest award for pop music on Wednesday.

A week before that, the foot-stomping sounds of Sweet Honey in the Rock, a female a cappella group, filled the East Room for a Black History Month program that first lady Michelle Obama held for nearly 200 sixth- and seventh-graders from around Washington.

Cocktails were sipped during at least three such receptions to date, all held on Wednesdays.

Bookending the midweek activity were a Super Bowl party for select Democratic and Republican lawmakers and a dinner for governors, the new administration's first black-tie affair. It was capped with a performance by the 1970s pop group Earth, Wind and Fire, and a conga line.

The flurry of entertaining is in keeping with the Obamas' promise to make the White House a more open place for everyone.

The governors' dinner was "a great kickoff of what we hope will be an atmosphere here in the White House that is welcoming and that reminds everybody that this is the people's house," Obama told the state chief executives after they had dined on Maryland crab, Wagyu beef, Nantucket scallops and citrus salad.

"We are just temporary occupants. This is a place that belongs to the American people and we want to make sure that everybody understands it's open," he said.

At the dinner in the State Dining Room, the Obamas looked comfortable, chatting and smiling with their guests. Afterward, they escorted the governors down the hall to the East Room, which had been arranged with few tables and chairs to encourage dancing to "September,""Boogie Wonderland" and other hits from a musical group Obama listened to growing up.

The conga line formed after the media were escorted out and, apparently, after Obama had called it a night.

"Thank you also for waiting until I had left before you started the conga line," the president told the governors the next morning. "I hear it was quite a spectacle."

Some Obama guests say he immediately puts them at ease. He indulges them and serves cookies, too.

"People like me felt comfortable in his presence," said Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., a self-described "poor country boy" who said he felt like a "freshman going to the senior prom" when he attended a White House reception for leaders of the congressional caucuses.

"Sometimes when you're in the presence of the most powerful person in the world, in the most powerful democracy in the world ... I was in awe that I was comfortable," said Honda, chairman of the Asian Pacific American Caucus. "I think that's his style and how he grew up, who he is.

"He's down to earth and engaging," Honda said.

Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., was among those invited for the Super Bowl. He said Obama, an avid sports fan, joined his guests for most of the game between the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers.

"It wasn't a circumstance where he came in and said 'Hi' and then left," Franks said. "He actually stayed and watched the game."

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn, said Obama was very cordial, and he and the first lady made guests feel comfortable. The president talked to everyone before the game started, she said, including a 12-year-old boy who asked Obama where the bathroom was.

"My favorite part was when he personally served us cookies - oatmeal raisin - when we were watching the game," she said.

The gathering over hot dogs and hamburgers was one of several get-to-know-the-members-of Congress events Obama held as he lobbied lawmakers to support the nearly $800 billion tax-and-spend economic package he recently signed into law. His efforts produced no Republican votes in the House and just three in the Senate, but Franks said he still appreciated the Democratic president's efforts to reach out to the opposing party.

"I think the value of social interaction like this is not so much that it co-opts anyone in any way. It certainly didn't in my case," said Franks, who said he had a substantive conversation with Obama at the party, "I think it humanizes and personalizes opponents. We can diminish politics and try to work together for what's right for the country."

Obama played the role of "first fan" at the Wonder tribute, where he opened up about his and his wife's common enjoyment of Wonder's music.

"As Stevie knows, I'm a huge fan. And he has been a great supporter," Obama said before presenting the award-winning, singer-songwriter with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.

He said Wonder's songs "became the soundtrack of my youth" and that in them he "found peace and inspiration, especially in difficult times."

Obama presented the medal to Wonder, then wrapped the singer in a bear hug. As the media were led out of the room, Wonder struck up "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours," which was a staple of Obama's campaign rallies.

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090302/D96LSJP80.html

It's about The Hope.

Tax problems haunt another Obama nominee
By Ian Swanson
Posted: 03/02/09 03:51 PM [ET]
Another nominee to President Obama’s cabinet is embroiled in tax issues, but it is unclear whether they will impede his confirmation by the Senate.

Former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, nominated as Obama’s U.S. Trade Representative, made several errors on his tax returns, according to a report released Monday afternoon by the Senate Finance Committee.

The report said Kirk will file an amended return next week. The panel is also postponing a confirmation hearing for Kirk, initially scheduled for Thursday, until March 9.

The report reveals that Kirk did not report $37,750 in speaking honoraria as income for tax years 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Instead, Kirk asked that the honoraria be assigned to Austin College, his alma matter, to help fulfill a pledge he made for a scholarship fund.

According to the report, Kirk later determined that the honoraria should have been reported as income and deducted as charitable donations. The estimated income tax effect of these adjustments, including taking into account honoraria already deducted as charitable deductions, is about $5,800, according to the report.

The report also mentions other tax problems, including season tickets to the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks that Kirk reported as a business expense. Some of those deductions did not qualify as entertainment expenses, according to the report, and as a result Kirk is adjusting his total expenses. The tax effect, the report said, would be $2,600.

Despite the problems, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the panel’s chairmen, said Kirk “is the right person for this job and I will work to move his nomination quickly.”

In a joint statement, Baucus and Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the panel’s ranking Republican, said the report and a Monday briefing for panel members would “ensure the appropriate level of transparency” to ensure all senators can assess the relevant information for Kirk’s nomination.

It is unclear whether Grassley will support the nomination.

Tax problems already tripped up Obama’s first nominee as secretary of Health and Human Services, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), who withdrew. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was confirmed despite tax errors. Both nominees went through the Finance panel.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/tax-pr...2009-03-02.html

The Silence of the Liberals
As Obama launches "war on terrorism" II
by Justin Raimondo

I see that the Pentagon has reversed its old policy of refusing to allow photographs of those flag-draped coffins as our dead soldiers return from the battlefield. One wonders, however, how much interest there will be in taking and publishing such photos now that President Barack Obama is in office. One also wonders how long it will take the media to acknowledge the new quagmire we're sinking into if and when the numbers of casualties start increasing – as they are sure to do.

After all, Obama's war is going to be taking place on a much larger, more difficult canvas than that of his predecessor's, which was confined in large part to Iraq. All of Afghanistan will soon be teeming with newly-arrived US soldiers, sent there – direct from Iraq – to fulfill the President's pledge to start fighting the "right war" in the right way, a "smart" way. Oh, these guys (and gals) are the Best and the Brightest, aren't they?

The smarty-pants tone and style of this administration is already beginning to grate on my nerves, as they pander to their base on the symbolic issues – like the coffin question – in hopes no one will notice as they backtrack on more important matters. So far, it doesn't seem to be working out all that well.

Glenn Greenwald isn't cutting them any slack on the torture brouhaha – he's already pointed out that they'll still be torturing people, albeit not with their own hands in some instances, and that if Guantanamo is closed, Bagram – where similar activities are known to take place – is going to be open for "business."

Most of the Obama-zoids are happy, however, because, after all, Keith Olbermann assures them we've entered the new millennium, the Dear Leader is in the White House, and all's right with the world. But is it?

Not by a long shot. Has anyone noticed Obama's vaunted 16-month withdrawal-from-Iraq plan has already stretched into 19 months – and the "residual force" he kept talking about during the campaign, as if it were a mere afterthought, turns out to be 50,000 strong?

Originally, none of those "residuals" were supposed to be combat troops – yet now we are told "some would still be serving in combat as they conducted counterterrorism missions." You have to go all the way to the very end of thisNew York Times report before you discover that, according to Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell, "A limited number of those that remain will conduct combat operations against terrorists, assisting Iraqi security forces."

In short: we aren't leaving.

I don't care what the status of forces agreement says: that document has more loopholes than the bank bailout bill's provisions for paying back the American taxpayers. Those 50,000 "residual" occupiers will simply pull back into their permanent bases, which are even now being constructed throughout Iraq, to be called on when our sock-puppets find themselves unable to tamp down the growing spirit of rebellion.

What kind of a "withdrawal" is this? It is one so burdened with contingencies, conditional footnotes, and amendatory clauses, that it falls beneath its own weight and collapses into a fair approximation of the status quo.

Antiwar voters who cast their ballots for Obama have succeeded in rolling the stone all the way up a rather steep hill, only to see it fall down the other side – and we are right back where we started. The next hill is called Afghanistan, and beyond that is yet another: Pakistan.

Not even Bush tried to fight a two-front war: Obama, however, is leaping into Afghanistan with alarming speed. Sending those 17,000 troops was one of the first acts of his administration, announced well before any of the economic measures. The economy may be crumbling, but the empire cannot be allowed to go the same way – that's the lunatic mentality of our rulers, whose priorities reflect a Washington mindset still stuck in the glory days of American hegemony.

Under Obama, the military budget will rise by 4 percent, and this isn't counting the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan. As Cato Institute research fellow Benjamin H. Friedman puts it: "Many Americans believe that Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress will lower defense spending and restrain the militaristic foreign policy it underwrites. The coming years should destroy that myth."

Yes, but myths die hard. It will take a couple of shiploads of flag-draped coffins – and perhaps a couple of alarming incidents in Afghanistan and environs – to wake up Obama's liberal supporters to what they're presently enabling with their silent complicity. In the meantime, the creaking wheels of empire are turning as we gather our forces for another even more perilous mission that will take us straight into the fabled graveyard of would-be world-conquerors otherwise known as Afghanistan. Why? How? To what purpose? A thousand questions raise themselves up, like the first crocuses of spring – but the Obama administration isn't answering, because no one of any importance is asking. Just little old me – and, maybe you. And maybe Rachel Maddow, now and then: and that's pretty much it. Surely the alleged "antiwar movement" isn't interested – they're too busy hailing Obama's election.

The President's budget requests for Iraq and Afghanistan total $75 billion through the fall, and $130 billion for next year. That means we'll be spending nearly $11 billion per month for at least the next year and a half.

This bothers exactly no one in Washington, and especially not in the White House or the Democratic caucus chamber: after all, these people believe that government spending – anysort of spending – is what will fix our ailing economy right now. So why not increase the mis-named "defense" budget, anyway – don't you want an economic recovery, or are you, like Rush Limbaugh, hoping the President will fail?

Yes, you know we've entered a new era when I start citing Limbaugh favorably, and yet that's the sad part about all this: it is now left to Limbaugh and his talk radio confreres to point out the backsliding and howling hypocrisy in this administration's policies, both foreign and domestic, because the liberals – with a few exceptions – have been struck dumb by their "victory."




http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14319

That bites.

Whoever is doing the vetting should be appointed ambassador to Chechnia.

Dumbass.

With tongue planted firmly in cheek -

I do recall in the early days of the Clinton Adminstration the WH crew was called "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" - the current crew has yet to figure out where the bullets are, much less how to load them.

I wonder if a single one of them has touched a gun or know which end the bullets come out.

THE CAL RIPKEN PRESIDENT
February 25, 2009


As Obama prepared to deliver his address to Congress on Tuesday, the Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner, Fox News' Bret Baier and Charles Krauthammer all gushed that history was being made as the first African-American president appeared before Congress.

Even Gov. Bobby Jindal, whom I suppose I should note was the first Indian-American to give the Republican response to a president's speech, began with an encomium to the first black president. (Wasn't Bobby great in "Slumdog Millionaire"?)

Are we going to have to hear about this for the next four years? Obama is becoming the Cal Ripken Jr. of presidents, making history every time he suits up for a game. Recently, Obama also became the first African-American president to order a ham sandwich late at night from the White House kitchen! That's going to get old pretty quick.

But as long as the nation is obsessed with historic milestones, is no one going to remark on what a great country it is where a mentally retarded woman can become speaker of the house?

Obama spent more than twice as much time in his historic speech genuflecting to the teachers' unions than talking about terrorism, Iraq or Afghanistan. So it was historic only in the sense that Obama is the first African-American president, but was the same old Democratic claptrap in every other respect.

After claiming that the disastrous stimulus bill would create or save 3.5 million jobs -- "more than 90 percent" in the private sector -- Obama then enumerated a long list of exclusively government jobs that would be "saved."

He was suspiciously verbose about saving the jobs of public schoolteachers. Because nothing says "economic stimulus" better than saving the jobs of lethargic incompetents who kick off at 2 p.m. every day and get summers off. Actually, that's not fair: Some teachers spend long hours after school having sex with their students.

As with the Clintons, Obama so earnestly believes in public school education that he sends his girls to ... an expensive private school. He demands that taxpayers support the very public schoolteachers he won't trust with his own children.

It is one thing to tell voters that school choice is wrong, because, you know, the public schools won't get better unless Americans sacrifice their children to the teachers' union's maw. But it is quite another for Democrats to feed their own kids to the union incinerator.

Consequently, no Democrat since Jimmy Carter has been stupid enough to send his own children to a public school.

And yet the stimulus bill expressly prohibits money earmarked for "education" to be spent on financial aid at private or parochial schools. Private schools might use it for some nefarious purpose like actually teaching their students, rather than indoctrinating them in anti-American propaganda.

The stimulus bill includes about $100 billion to education. By "education," Democrats don't mean anything a normal person would think of as education, such as learning how to talk good. "Education" means creating lots of useless bureaucratic jobs, mostly in Washington, having nothing to do with teaching.

Apparently, nothing irritates public schoolteachers more than being asked to teach. While 80 percent of the employees of private schools are teachers, only half the employees of public schools are. The rest are "coordinating," "facilitating" or "empowering" something or other.

The Department of Education alone provides more than 4,000 jobs that haven't the faintest connection with teaching. And now the stimulus bill will double the Education Department's funding. (For those of you who went to a public school, that means it will become twice as big.)

We've come a long way from Ronald Reagan promising to eliminate the Education Department, which itself was a Jimmy Carter sop to the teachers' unions.

Federal meddling in education has been an abject failure, so the Democrats' plan is to keep doing more of the same. If only there were some aphorism about people who fail to learn from history -- oh, well!

It can't be easy to reduce the educational achievement in America year after year, but the education establishment has done it! Yes they can!

Thanks to the hard work of thousands of government workers at the Department of Education and well-paid teachers' union employees, American schoolchildren perform worse on education tests for every year they spend in a public school.

It turns out that being in U.S. public schools has the same effect on people as hanging around Paris Hilton does.

In fourth grade, the earliest grade for which international comparisons are available, American students outperform most other countries in reading, math and science. Fourth-graders score in the 92nd percentile in science, the 58th percentile in math and the 70th percentile in reading, where they beat 26 of 35 countries, including Germany, France and Italy.

But by the eighth grade, American students are only midrange in international comparisons. (On the plus side, by the eighth grade they're noticeably fatter.)

By the 12th grade -- after receiving the full benefits of an American education -- Americans are near the bottom. Let X represent the number of years spent in U.S. public schools, and Y represent average test scores in math and reading -- oh, never mind.

With an additional eight years of a public school education under their belts, Americans fall from the 92nd percentile in science to the 29th percentile. While American fourth-graders are bested only by South Korea and Japan in science, by 12th grade, the only countries the American students can beat are Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa.

Which suggests that if public education were extended all the way through college, by the time a student gets to graduate school he might very well be qualified to be ... speaker of the house!

Check this out!


Barack Obama cancels press conference
with Gordon Brown "because of snow"

Toby Harnden is the Daily Telegraph's US Editor
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/...because_of_snow

...........After all, there are 132 rooms in the White House at least some of which, presumably, are currently free of snow.

On the other hand, President Obama is terribly busy this Tuesday. The White House schedule tells us that he is delivering remarks at the Department of Transportation to deliver remarks about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is also speaking at the Department of Interior to mark its 160th anniversary.

There's a conflab with Pentagon chief Bob Gates. Oh, and Mr Obama will also meet "a delegation from the Boy Scouts of America and receive their 2008 Report to the Nation". in the Oval Office.

Mr Brown might lament that despite the so-called "special relationship" Britain is now getting the same treatment as the President of Uruguay but he need not despair. I'm told there's a chance he might get drinks with Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening...............

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/toby_harnden/...because_of_snow


He's getting his TelePrompter notes readied for the conversation with PM Brown.



Downing St left embarrassed after President Obama scales down first meeting with Brown
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...ting-Brown.html

By Benedict Brogan

Last updated at 3:46 PM on 03rd March 2009

Downing Street was left scrambling to avoid a diplomatic embarrassment today after the White House ruled out a formal press conference to mark Gordon Brown's first formal meeting with Barack Obama.

Officials denied the Prime Minister was being snubbed after it emerged that the new president would not make himself available for the traditional joint appearance before the White House media.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11...ting-Brown.html