I swear this country is going to hell in a hand-basket…
A group of students is told to stop singing the national anthem at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. because it is considered an ‘illegal demonstration’.
Best part? They started back up again, and continued singing anyway! I guess there is still hope for the next generation after all.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, DEMOCRAT, Minnesota. Words just cannot describe how much of a dunce this woman is.
She’s not quite as stupid as Peggy West, but in this case she made a mockery of the US Senate wasting valuable time to ask legitimate germane questions to a prospective Supreme Court Justice. Kagen, at least, saw the wisdom of avoiding this one.
Liberals are like children, and this is what happens when you give them power…
How crucial is the “Twilight” phenomenon to the cultural fabric of America? Enough that one’s opinion on it is apparently worth knowing before determining whether she should sit on the highest court in the land.
During her Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Solicitor General Elena Kagan was jokingly asked by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, for her thoughts on a particularly pressing issue.
Noting the “incredibly grueling day” Ms. Kagan had on Tuesday, Ms. Klobuchar remarked, “I guess it means you missed the midnight debut of the third ‘Twilight’ movie last night.” After some laughter, she added: “We did not miss it in our household, and it culminated in three 15-year-old girls sleeping over at 3 a.m.”
Ms. Kagan said she was not able to see “Eclipse,” but Ms. Klobuchar nonetheless continued, “I keep wanting to ask you about the famous case of Edward versus Jacob or the vampire versus the werewolf.”
“I wish you wouldn’t,” Ms. Kagan said.
“I know you can’t comment on future cases,” Ms. Klobuchar said. “So I’ll leave that alone.”
Tune in tomorrow when Ms. Kagan is asked whether Dick York or Dick Sargent was the better Darrin on “Bewitched.”
Seriously?!?!?! Remember this in November, folks.
First we’re celebrating communism by flying the Chicom colors on the Empire State Building, and now – you’re hard-earned tax dollars are funding terrorist states…
From Fox News:
Flag Vandalism Mars Memorial Day in Several States
By Joshua Rhett Miller
Published June 01, 2010 | FOXNews.com
Christian Ashby, of Portland, Ore., holds an American flag that was vandalized outside of his home sometime late Saturday or early Sunday.
From Oregon to Minnesota to Ohio, vandals trampled on Old Glory over the Memorial Day weekend. In one Ohio town alone, approximately 25 American flags were found set ablaze on Monday.
At least one national veterans group called for those responsible for the “shocking and reprehensible” acts of vandalism to be quickly arrested and prosecuted.
Police in Wooster, Ohio, were going door-to-door early Tuesday in search of the people who torched roughly 25 flags and flagpoles along Saunders Drive and Morgan Street, Capt. John Quicci said.
“They were set on fire,” Quicci told FoxNews.com, adding that an investigation is ongoing.
No suspects or motives had been identified, according to Quicci, who was unable to estimate damages to the 3-by-5-foot flags and the 10-foot metal poles placed outside of residents’ homes by the annual Wooster Rotary Parade of Flags project.
The people who torched the flags face charges of criminal damaging and arson, Quicci said.
“We’re treating this very seriously,” he said.
In Minneapolis, a fire was set late last week to an American flag hanging outside a Marine veteran’s home. The residence was spared and no injuries were reported, but the flag was destroyed.
Elizabeth Hawley said she found the ashes Thursday morning and called the act “very disturbing.” She said her husband is keeping his feelings reserved, but she knows he’s upset.
Hawley told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that she thinks the flag-burning was a random act of vandalism.
In Portland, Ore., Christian Ashby and his wife awoke Sunday to find their American flag torn down, covered in obscenities and burned outside their home, KPTV.com reported. Flying the flag has special meaning to his family, Ashby said.
“Well, we have some close relatives, especially my wife, who had a cousin who suffered from [post-traumatic stress disorder] and took his own life,” Ashby told the website. “So, we have some very dedicated family to veterans of the United States services. So, it means a lot to us to fly the flag.”
Ashby said a local man who served two tours in Vietnam loaned him another flag after posting news of the vandalism online.
Ryan Gallucci, a spokesman for AMVETS, a national organization representing 200,000 veterans, said he found the acts of vandalism “shocking and reprehensible,” particularly on Memorial Day weekend.
“We absolutely condemn it,” Gallucci told FoxNews.com. “Memorial Day is one of our country’s most significant holidays and a chance to honor the men and women who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. For someone to desecrate the American flag on Memorial Day, it’s unconscionable, it’s unforgivable.”
Gallucci called for quick closure to the ongoing investigations in at least three states.
“The people who are responsible for this need to be apprehended and held accountable for their actions,” he said. “We shouldn’t tolerate it, regardless of what the excuse is. We need to get to the bottom of it.”
Barack, seriously… WTF? again with the submissive bowing to other foreign leaders? You wanna give him a handjob, after that handshake? Shouldn’t he at least buy you dinner, first?
So i’m on Buzz on my phone, which is like a cross between Twitter and Facebook (without the annoying friend status notifications about their Farms and Mafias), and it picks up chatter traffic from others on Buzz nearby, based on my GPS information.
I swear, I would have had a brain aneurism if I just kept going in the endless circle that it did.
Finally, I just gave up, only to have him actually admit the truth right after. *rolls eyes*
*queue the Dragnet theme*
“Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the idiotic...”
Johnny Parrotman - Mobile - Public - Mar 22
Has Rush Limbaugh moved yet?? This republican wants to know if he keeps his word.Smite A. Hippie - Uhh yeah, he said he’d go there for healthcare, not move there. Might wanna actually read a source, instead of sounding like a mind-numb idiot echoing the the same repetitive line out of the media. 1:04 am
Smite A. Hippie - Oh yeah, and you being a Republican is about as likely as Michael Moore turning down a Twinkie. heh. 1:08 am
Smite A. Hippie - He also did that intentionally, saying that for a sound-bite to tweak the media with, to see if it would be twisted and echoed as you did. Congrats on falling for that… “here’s your sign.” 1:18 am
Timmy Brokenrecord - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/09/limbaugh-ill-leave-us-if_n_491536.html – “If this passes and its 5 years from now and all that stuff gets implemented, I’ll leave the country”. Hey Smite, don’t be a jerk, its not funny, quit it. 10:53 am
Smite A. Hippie - again, I said get it from the source, not a repetitive broken record of a partial sound-bite from the media (or a fring blog site like the huffinton-puffington post).
that’s not what he said. 10:57 am
Smite A. Hippie - http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_030810/content/01125111.guest.html 10:59 am
Timmy Brokenrecord - I just quoted what he said verbatim, and read the post Smite, I’m not Johnny, I never claimed to be a republican. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyQ648uAIE 10:59 am
Smite A. Hippie - and i heard it live, READ the link from the SOURCE. again.. you posted something from a 3rd party yet again… *smacks head*
(and yes, I saw that you weren’t him and changed that comment) 11:05 am
Smite A. Hippie - he explicitly states, he’s going to costa rica for healthcare, doesn’t say he’s MOVING there, even on the link you provided. 11:07 am
Smite A. Hippie - and seriously, when you send a link to something that looks like they’re trying to be a news show (theyoungturks), yet starts into libelous rumors of drugs and sex and other jokes of character toward the end… you (and that source) have completely lost all credibility there… why even bother. 11:12 am
Johnny Parrotman - Holy crap. Rush is the sorriest excuse for a Republican that ever lived. Perhaps he didn’t say he was going to move. But I, for one, would like to help him pack his bags and get back to the Republican roots the party was founded on and get away from Rush’s imperialistic tendencies. Compare Rush to Lincoln and you’ll see where Republicans went wrong. It’s a sad decade for our party. 11:29 am
Timmy Brokenrecord - Seriously, man, both sources are playing recorded audio from Limbaugh’s show. What does it really matter who is playing the clip. Sorry, if Internet media doesn’t live up to your expectations. Yes, he states he’d move to Costa Rica in the clip and then later he goes on and says if it passes and it is implemented he is leaving this country period, the caller goes into something about Cuba blah blah blah. Here is the deal, don’t be a dick, all this stuff about Johnny being dumb or falling for some bait, its ridiculous. I don’t know you, I do know him and the one thing he is not is unintelligent. So take your sign, and seriously move on. 11:34 am
Smite A. Hippie - Timmy… he DOESN’T say he’d MOVE there… even in the audio clip.. take the wax out of your ears and listen to it again. 11:49 am
Smite A. Hippie - and yes, I do question his intelligence, when he’s spouting off about imperialistic tendencies and whatnot. How about citing a source on that one??
I agree the Republican party has lost it’s way in recent history, far from the ideals of Lincoln – but Rush is a Conservative, not a Republican, and Conservatism is the ideals Lincoln founded the party on. Apparently he’s living in another world, confusing imperialistic tendencies from big-government liberals, with conservatives. 11:55 am
Timmy Brokenrecord - Oh, wow fine, he says he would go there for healthcare, than later he says he’d leave the country if this passed and was implemented. 11:55 am
Smite A. Hippie - Timmy Timmy Timmy… he doesn’t say he’d move there… i don’t know how to explain it any other way, beyond telling you to listen to the full clip, or read the transcript I posted.
There’s really no point in going back and forth in a circle on, as the old adage goes “Never argue with a fool; onlookers may not be able to tell the difference”… if you can’t listen/read (from the actual source), then there’s no hope…we’re done here… 12:04 pm
Johnny Parrotman - A true conservative would want to close all the foreign military bases, gtfo Iraq, and seriously downsize the military. Did you know the Republicans filibustered when we triedto join NATO. Rush is a neocon. Real conservatives want nothing to do with him. He’s a Reagan era leftover that somehow thinks he speaks for conservatives. And Dush did not say he would move to Costa Rica, but he did say he would leave. GTFO, I say. 12:15 pm
Timmy Brokenrecord - you are right we are done here. 12:15 pm
Smite A. Hippie - see Timmy, even Johnny acknowledges it.
12:19 pm
Timmy Brokenrecord - yes yes, he didn’t say move to Costa Rica, he just said he’d leave the country, personally, I’m fine with either scenario. 12:25 pm
So the stimulus bill hasn’t done squat for jobs here… but China and other foreign nations?
You betcha!
Obama’s Stimulus Money Spent Overseas, Jobs in China
So how’s that Hopey-Change workin’ out for you?
Well look who’s got a huge (no bid?) contract in Iraq…
KBR wins contract for work in Iraq
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
March 2, 2010, 9:49PM
KBR has received its first contract for logistics services in Iraq under a new competitive bidding structure that ended its sole-source work, the Army said Tuesday.Houston-based KBR won a one-year $571 million contract with four option years that, if exercised, could be as high as $2.8 billion, Army spokesman Dan Carlson said.
The contract calls for KBR to provide services including transportation and postal operations, he said in a statement.
KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root) is the former subsidiary of that eeeevil Halliburton, and is the company that was awarded those huge contracts during start of the 2003 Iraq offensives. They’ve been around for some time, though. They also received contracts during WWII, Vietnam, post-Desert Storm, and I remember them being there with me in Kosovo too… but it was only under President Bush’s terms, there was outcry.
They’re the only company with the experience and man-power big enough to pull off the logistics that are requested by Uncle Sam, but when a Republican is in office, the libs cry-fowl – “Cheney!” “No bid contract!” “Evil big corporation!”
Will there by outcry this time? Probably not. There wasn’t any under Johnson, or Clinton.. and what Party is Obama with? oh yes, that’s right…
Remember how the left constantly made fun of Bush, over his pronunciation of nuclear? Well say what you will, but at least HE knows the difference between corps and corpse.
It was twice on that video, and as I understand it from the news reporting, a total of three times, so it really is how he thinks you say corpsman.
Say it with me now, Mr. President… corpsman… “kohr-muhn”. If you’re still not sure, click on the last link and then the little speaker icon beside the word.
How much does it cost us to fly Pelosi home on her Air Force party jet? $28,201 each way. In the last two years, she’s billed taxpayers over $2.1 million in travel expenses for her and her family, and over $100k was for inflight food and alcohol. No wonder she’s a fan of public transportation.
Judicial Watch Uncovers New Documents Detailing Pelosi’s Use of Air Force Aircraft
h/t – “Being Conservative” group on Facebook.
