Gordon Brown's JOE THE PLUMBER Moment.

~*~!

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Assimilation: The New York Times loses it's dictionary

The Editorial Board at NYT is at it again...

These steps are no substitute for immigration reform, the future of which seems pretty murky after Mr. Obama started gingerly backing away this week. But the federal government must react forcefully to the Arizona statute. Is our core belief still the welcome and assimilation of newcomers? Arizona has given one answer. It’s time for Mr. Obama to give the other.

(Barack Obama has backed far away from Immigration Reform. Be sure to see the plaintive photo I posted with the #Arizona protester's poster board begging Barack Obama for a 'savior moment'.)

I laughed all the way through this tear-streaming editorial (do you, Opinion Writer, really believe your collection of lame talking points; are you getting them from Democratic Underground? or have I accidentally stumbled into The Onion?) but had to choke at the near next-to-last line where you actually used the word 'assimilation'.

Do you think that the intent of any 'immigrant' coming into this country illegally includes a desire for or even the slightest attempt at what you believe is 'assimilation'?

For your edification (google along with me here):

Assimilation: "the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family."

Clearly, assimilation is not what we are seeing, especially in Arizona, Southern California and in parts of Texas and New Mexico. I suggest you do a bit of research. Google 'La Raza', 'Aztlan', 'MECha'.

And see for yourself 'assimilation'.

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Friday Photo(s): Watery Eyes

Amazing macro photography of insects taken at 3:00 AM, with dew droplets enhancing their eyes. See the entire collection, very worthwhile.

(oh. And Barack Obama cries at Dorothy Height's funeral. Had to put that somewhere I suppose.)

(Don't feel so bad, Baracky; I felt the same way when Farrah Fawcett passed... )

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Foreign Press on Marco Rubio: "America's burgeoning Tea Party movement is on course to get its first senator."

This post's purpose is to post this photo of Marco Rubio and his family.

A good-looking family.

U.S. Senator from Florida; that's got a nice ring to it. S'long, Crist, moderate, I never wanted to know ye.

Telegraph.co.uk gets it right...

The withdrawal of Charlie Crist, Florida's moderate governor, from the Republican primary has left the way clear for conservative favourite Marco Rubio to claim the party's nomination.

Hailed as the first member of the Tea Party to have the potential to break into the Senate, Rubio has risen from political obscurity a year ago to poster boy for the Right-wing populist movement that has spread across the country in reaction to President Barack Obama's liberal agenda.

I would've written "Barack Obama's far-left statist agenda", but that's too much truth for a main stream publication to write and publish.

I may run down to Florida with my ACORN hat and my leather thug-SEIU jacket and cast a few dozen hundred ballots for Rubio... )

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Arizona Hispanics beg Obama for a "Savior Moment"; Social Democrats giddy with newfound vote-getting opportunity

Tough choices. You leave your impoverished but beloved homeland to come to the United States, where you have an opportunity to work harder than many of the overly-privileged US citizens want to work, for less money than those citizens will get out of bed and turn off the TV for. All is fine until the jobs dry up, and those US citizens who didn't want work suddenly do. Oh, and the cross-border drug runners mess up the good thing: they bring unwanted crime, murder and mahem, drug lord despotism. And the migrating hordes despoil the terrain. Oh, and don't forget the Aztlan, MEChA and LaRaza movements, groups desirous of reconquista...

1) We are Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlán reclaiming the land of our birth (Chicana/Chicano Nation);

2) Aztlán belongs to indigenous people, who are sovereign and not subject to a foreign culture;

3) We are a union of free pueblos forming a bronze (Chicana/Chicano) Nation;

4) Chicano nationalism, as the key to mobilization and organization, is the common denominator to bring consensus to the Chicana/Chicano Movement;

5) Cultural values strengthen our identity as La Familia de La Raza; and

6) EPA, as a basic plan of Chicana/Chicano liberation, sought the formation of an independent national political party that would represent the sentiments of the Chicana/Chicano community.

Now, the Hispanic community is galvanized by Arizona's daring move to usurp the power of the Obama administration, Governor Jan Brewer was forced to sign the bill into law because Obama and his DHS chief, Janet Napolitano, have had ample opportunities to defend the borders of the very state where Napolitano was once governor, but no! there were other pressing issues that came first: healthcare, climate change &c. Defending the borders of this county, hah! What, do you think that's in the constitution or something? Meanwhile, Phoenix became the Kidnapping Capitol of the United States.

Democrats and leftists are seizing this opportunity to decry Governor Jan Brewer's desire for law and order. San Francisco, the "Sanctuary City" that isn't, is calling for a boycott. They also smell votes, these Democrats; the illegal aliens, if given the vote, will naturally vote Social Democrat. Not that they are moochers, hell no, and I'll bet most Hispanics aren't default criminals, but you know the stick-carrot routine. The moocher - looter attractant scent is the natural lure for our modern far-left Democrats.

May 1, May Day, is a worldwide socialist holiday. Naturally, these sorts will join with the inflamed aliens and all will come out to protest and demand; you'll see Mexico's flags, but not Mexico's stringent laws. 

Obama has a golden opportunity to run with whatever he can get using Rham's Corollary. I remind you that we are facing a foe skilled in the Alinsky methodologies, and Rule #8 is “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.” Which means, if it seems we’re getting traction with laser-like focus on, say, financial issues, then the focus will change; because of Rule #7 “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”. It takes only a news headline to defocus to another, foe-friendlier, topic; using the Rham Corollary “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” A good right-now example is this passage of Arizona's illegal roundup law. We see Global Warmalism (a weakening issue for Obama) tabled and his next moocher-vote-attractor “Immigration Reform” come to the forefront.

At best, we'll get reform. Democrats will get more voters. At worst, we lose ground.

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Barack Obama speaks in Fort Madison to Siemens Wind-Turbine folk; hears from Ralph Kramden

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Wind. Turbines. Obama. This might work out after all.

In Fort Madison, loudest cheers AFTER Obama leaves

Har Har Hardee Har Har indeed.

"To the Moon, Alice!"

wait...

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How to deal with the police: 10 rules you should know if you are a US Citizen

Oh. That video's a bit long, you say?

Salient points: How to act around the police.

1. Always be calm and cool. Don't ever talk back. Being hostile with police is stupid and dangerous. Control your words, the tone of your voice, your demeanor. Check your ego at the door.

2. You always have the right to remain silent. Keep your mouth shut.

3. You have the right to refuse searches. Magic words: "I don't consent to searches". Assert your rights calmly.

4. Don't get tricked: the police can legally lie to you. Refusal to submit to search is not admission to any guilt. Best to never consent to a search.

5. Determine if you're free to go. Magic words: "Officer, are you detaining me, or am I free to go?"

6. Don't expose yourself. Police need reasonable suspicion; but reasonable suspicion is an easy threshold to meet if you are cocky and careless. If you wonder if the police have reasonable suspicion, ask if you're free to go.

7. Don't run. Ever.

8. Never touch a cop. Ever. Magic words: "I'm going to remain silent. I'd like to see a lawyer." Then shut your mouth. You can't talk your way out of a police interrogation without a lawyer.

9. Report police misconduct: be a good witness. Never ask for an officer's badge number; that's throwing napalm on a fire. Remember the details, the words spoken. Gather witnesses if any. If you were beaten, have a photo taken as soon as possible.

10. You don't have to let police in your home. Unless there's a serious emergency, they can't come in unless you invite them in. Don't. Talk to them outside your home. Magic words: "I can't let you in without a warrant." You don't even have to answer the door unless you have an emergency.

Provided as a public service. Now, go keep your nose clean.

h/t The Voice of Reason, found in comments on this post of how not to act around the police.

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"My N-word is November".

From Erick Erickson @RedState...

One of my favorite signs at the tax day tea party in Washington, D.C. held up by the the Christo-fascist, flag waving, gun toting, racist, white power fueled, anti-semetic, neo-nazi, homophobic teabaggers, or whatever the Democrats are calling tea partiers these days, was “My ‘n’ word is November.”

The guy who held it up was there with his wife. Her sign said, “I only play a racist on MSNBC.”

This is a compelling video, from RememberNovember dot com...

Never forget the payback payoff comes in November.

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THIS IS THE PARTY OF HATE YOU LIBERALS WARNED US ABOUT! VIOLENT LANGUAGE! WARNING!

The video: messages left at FreedomWorks, from the ever-so-tolerant Left, encouraged and inspired by none other than the fired-for-his-hatreds GEICO voiceman Lance Baxter ("D.C. Douglas"). Lance must've barely escaped the irony hammer: Lance, or "D.C." (heh!), left a truculent, hateful, violent voice message at FreedomWorks complaining about the supposed hateful, violent Tea Partiers. Some dumb just can't be fixed.

Drink your way to your next job, Lance - Douglas; you're likely blacklisted by decent employers who don't need to deal with your obvious stupidities.

Listen to these messages from Lance's buddies.  Oh..Warning!, explicit Leftist sentiments on display...

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Related: a lefty blogger gets nailed ...

Let's focus, for a minute, on the essay's vapid attempt to assert the existence of a "white privilege" which allows anyone and everyone who is white to threaten others, engage in violent and incendiary rhetoric, and to be viewed as patriotic, instead of extremist and pathetic. 

Let's imagine.

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC and Northern Virginia,just a few miles from the Capitol and White House, armed with AK-47s,assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters--the black protesters--spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government. Would these protesters--these black protesters with guns--be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic? What if they were Arab-Americans? Because, after all, that's what happened recently when white gun enthusiasts descended upon the nation's capital, arms in hand, and verbally announced their readiness to make war on the country's political leaders if the need arose.

Now, imagine hundreds of thousands of black men descending upon Washington DC , demanding that "their" issues be placed on the national agenda - issues based on nothing but race - led by a radical orator and proven hater of Jews, who has openly and vocally displayed his hatred, calling Judaism a "gutter religion ," accused the government of manufacturing the H1N1 flu vaccine in order to depopulate the earth, and another radical leader who specializes in race baiting and blackmail.

There's more at the link to Washington Rebel, a blog I've just discovered. New in the reader, where I just made room by kicking out one who annoyed me.  Shit happens.

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Michael Mann says he'll sue over this video... "HIDE THE DECLINE"

...because the precious darlin's concerned that his image is being satirized...

Climate Scientist, Heated Up Over Satirical Video,
Threatens Lawsuit

The Penn State climate professor who has silently endured investigations, hostile questioning, legislative probes and attacks by colleagues has finally spoken out. He says he'll sue the makers of a satirical video that's a hit on You Tube.

Their response: Bring it on.

Michael Mann, one of the central figures in the recent climate-data scandal, is best known for his "hockey stick graph," which was the key visual aid in explaining how the world is warming at an alarming rate and in connecting the rise to the increase in use of carbon fuels in this century. E-mails stolen from a university in England were released online, revealing exchanges between climatologists and a reference to a "trick" that Mann had used to get the graph to portray what global warming scientists wanted to see. 

The parody video, titled "Hide the Decline," had more than 500,000 viewers on YouTube and received national attention when Rush Limbaugh played it on his radio show. It features a cat with a guitar, a talking tree, and a dancing figure sporting the image of Professor Mann. It's the use of his image that Mann is complaining about, arguing that the video supports "efforts sell various products and merchandise."

"The guy is crazy to threaten legal action," said Jeff Davis, the President of No Cap and Trade, a large organization that includes the group Mann is threatening to sue, Minnesotans for Global Warming. "A lawsuit would give us full discovery -- and there's a lot to look at in his work."

The offending video also features Al Gore in a jail cell between a couple nice gals. Just where I'd like to see him...

By way of explanation of what 'Hide the Decline' means, this other video also featuring the uber-grumpy Michael Mann but without any satire, just giving just the facts, ma'nn...

(The music you hear is of course "Draggin' the Line" by Tommy James and the Shondells. Good stuff.)

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Obama Calls Out to his '08 Moochers, for to Try to Win the 2010 Mid-terms.

So, you're going to run the 2010 Democrat tickets using the same racially divisive scare tactics and Alinsky-ACORN, Chicago-style trickeries as you did in '08? Dust off that one amorphous word 'CHANGE' that we know now means anti-Capitalism, pro-Euro-styled socialisms, and pro-identity politics ? Reach out and Community Organize with promises of 'free stuff paid for by taxing evil white men' to attract the moocher votes ?

You are tearing this Republic apart, and I'm convinced that's your goal.

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h/t Ben Smith @ Politico via Drudge (who used this headline:OBAMA PLAYS RACE CARD: RALLIES BLACKS, LATINOS FOR '10 UPSET)

"Police barred from penis enlargement"

This is even funnier than the previous post.

Can't wait to see what sort of freaky g00gle hits this one serves up.

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Chris Ware embarrasses FORTUNE Magazine

Now this, this is funny. Chris Ware was hired as graphic artist for to design the May 2010 Fortune Magazine cover (featuring the yearly Fortune 500 listings). Fortune Magazine didn’t do their homework on Chris Ware.

Hilarity ensues.



(click to embiggen to a huge size)

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Dr. Steven J. Hatfill's anthrax nightmare: "The Wrong Man"

Factoid of the day:

“People think they’re free in this country,” Hatfill says. “Don’t kid yourself. This is a police state. The government can pretty much do whatever it wants.”

and

“I was a guy who trusted the government,” he says. “Now, I don’t trust a damn thing they do.” He trusts reporters even less, dismissing them as little more than lapdogs for law enforcement.

But the 'wrong man' won...

Four months later, the Justice Department quietly settled with Hatfill for $5.82 million. “It allowed Doc to start over,” Connolly, his lawyer, says.

...

In addition to suing the Justice Department for violating his privacy and The New York Times for defaming him, Hatfill also brought a libel lawsuit against Don Foster, Vanity Fair, and Reader’s Digest, which had reprinted Foster’s article. The lawsuit led to a settlement whose dollar amount all parties have agreed to keep confidential. The news media, which had for so long savaged Hatfill, dutifully reported his legal victories, but from where he stands, that hardly balanced things on the ledger sheet of journalistic fairness.

...this time. Because he was a rare bird, a man who didn't completely collapse under the government's onslaught. But his experience hasn't made him an America-hater...

“My country didn’t do this to me,” he is quick to point out. “A bloated, incompetent bureaucracy and a broken press did. I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing today if I didn’t still love my country.”

h/t Jim Treacher, who, so far, is not so lucky.

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The Raven, the video. Not the Raven with the synched nuclear weapon, though.

Science Fiction techno-short thriller video created by Ricardo de Montreuil, set in a futuristic Los Angeles.

THE RAVEN

Good stuff, this little short; look for a movie to follow at some point.

There's no website, just a Facebook page.

Note: this is NOT Raven from Neal Stevenson's novel Snow Crash. That's one mean dude; this guy couldn't hold a candle.

Muhammed's Brave Followers Promise to Kill Infidels Over Cartoons. Again.

Yes, they can.

Because Comedy Central's South Park dressed Mohammed up as Smokey the Bear, there's a fire in the hearts and souls of those who fear that their Prophet is being speciously maligned, and threats of death and dismemberment are winging about.

Of course, we are not yet all Euroweenies here in America, so look out, Muhammedians, we are answering your threats. (Not Comedy Central, home of Jon Stewart; those pusses caved in and are crying like, well, Euroweenies... ).  Chris Muir, Conservative hero and artist of famed Day by Day weighs in...

And, a contest, open to all, to design your own Muhammed cartoon! This is really taking off all around the blogosphere. Thanks, Molly Norris, who now fears for her life, and is backing down.

I'll see what I can do, when I get back from vacation in a week or so.

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Derrick Morgan chosen by Tennessee Titans

Derrick Morgan, DE

Height: 6-3 | Weight: 266 | College: Georgia Tech

That'll work. Derrick Morgan could've gone to an earlier spot.

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Socialisms, of the Dirty Sorts

The "New $100", gazed upon admiringly by Geithner, Bernanke and Prewitt. Got wheelbarrow ? We'll need lots of these soonest, for that loaf of bread...

There are of course acceptable levels of 'socialisms' that we all know must exist. We see the support of the old people, retirees who've worked all their lives, as necessary and proper. Fire departments, since the bucket brigades, have been necessary for the common good, and hardworking people have chipped in to support 'em. All of those sorts of interventions are fine.

What is not fine in a Democratic Republic is when certain political regimes rise up and begin taking advantage of the fact that they can vote for themselves monies from the treasury TO AN EXTREME, by clothing themselves and their actions in the shabby dress of 'for the people'; such voting and looting would herald "...the end of the Republic", as polymath Ben Franklin observed.

Worst of all is when one particular regime, what we now know as the 'Social Democrats', use monies from the treasury, monies taken from the producers or, as we see now happening, borrowed from the Chinese, the Japanese and the Saudis (all of whom Mr. Obama did bow down before...hmmmm....) or newly-printed as future interest-accruing debt, and taking that looted, borrowed and invented printed debt-backed money and with it buying...votes. Votes attracted from a weak-minded, soft, pulpy, American Idol sort of 'progressive' populace what is comprised of not the sorts of people the founders were thinking of when they imagined their heirs.

Weak, soft Americans have voted for themselves Social Democrats who've looted the future right out from under their successors.

Thanks, Progressives, you're killing the Republic, and you've killed our, and our children's and grandchildren's, futures.

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expanded just slightly from a comment I left at this post, at the Kleinheider-less Post Politics.

Happy Earth Day (with cleavage) !

A favorite photo, an iconic photo, "Earthrise", taken from the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.

Of course, the Earth Mother would have had cleavage. Generous. Cleavage.

The alternative is...clavicle.

First lady Michelle Obama shows off her muscles along with the children at the DC River Terrace School 

at an event to promote physical fitness on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 in Washington. 

(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Yeah, it's always better topside I think, than dragging around behind.

Happy Earth Day~!

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The new "Reefer Madness"

This morning I surfed around as usual on the New York Times (one of my startup 'homepage' tabs) and clicked on their "Most Popular" category to see what's hip amongst the far-lefty big city folk. Amazingly enough, 1936's "Reefer Madness" topped the list of popular movies. Why is that, I wondered? Can't these "The-City" denizens get enough of staying stoned, that they have to laugh at a decidedly over-the-top bit of "unabashed propoganda" ? Then I realized: 4 20.

4:20, and 4/20, is the doper's hour and day. There's various answers to the question "why 420?" A search gives conflicting answers: some say that according to "High Times" magazine, 4:20 was created by a group of high school students because they met to smoke pot after school at 4:20pm. Others say (erroneously I think) that 420 is/was police department code for "doper bust imminent". That's a hoot; police codes vary from city to city, and I doubt any PD would choose to use doper code for anything. For any reason. A google search of "4 20 doper" gives us this wonderful site, "Doper's Union Local 420", where there be microcephalics. Go figure. If you must visit, don't breathe the air.

Oh. Speaking of microcephalics...  )

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Did Bill Clinton, mentioning Waco, open up for himself a festering, unhealed wound ?

I had almost forgotten the events of 1993, the burning out of the Branch Davidians from their compound near Waco, Texas; the very heavy-handed response Bill Clinton and Janet Reno devised to end the standoff that never should have become a standoff. Bill Clinton's partisan remarks in Sunday's NYT reminds us that his actions were far from heroic, and brings back opportunity for a more internet-savvy public to further question his response to the standoff of the Branch Davidians, and call again for answers to unanswered questions - and to possibly force further reviews, opening up the possibility that Bill Clinton might have to answer for his... crimes.

The Volokh Conspiracy's Kenneth Anderson recalls a review he wrote and published on The Ashes of Waco, a 1995 book written by Dick J. Reavis (download the review in pdf file format here). The opening paragraphs of the review...

Hubris at Waco
The Times Literary Supplement (London)
Kenneth Anderson
01 September 1995
Dick J. Reavis, The Ashes of Waco, An investigation, 320pp. New York: Simon and Schuster. $24 - 0 684 81132 4.

Like most Americans, I was only vaguely aware of the months-long stand-off between David Koresh's Branch Davidian cult members and the Federal government at Waco, Texas, until April 19, 1993, when it blew up in flames and billowing smoke and some eighty-six people died, including twenty-five children.

True, I was surprised by the armada the FBI unleashed against the religionists' compound nine Bradley fighting vehicles, five combat engineering vehicles, one tank retrieval vehicle and two Abrams tanks. I was less surprised that the FBI used CS tear-gas in the compound; although over a hundred nations prohibit the use of CS gas in warfare, the United States has never conceded that it is prohibited for use in domestic disturbances. I was, however, troubled to learn that despite endless discussions of whether the highly flammable compound might ignite and whose fault that would be, there were no fire-engines at the compound at the time the FBI attack began (although the FBI did take the trouble to send an aeroplane equipped with advanced radar capabilities to fly over the compound, apparently in order to have evidence that if a fire broke out, the FBI had not started it). It took forty-one minutes for fire-fighters to arrive from nearby communities, by which time most of the eightysix dead were charred remains. Nearly three hours after the fire began, there were only nine ambulances at the scene. But despite questions about FBI tactics, I, like most Americans then and today, even following the summer's Congressional hearings, was willing to write off Waco as another of those inevitable shoot-outs between law enforcement and various strange religious sects that punctuate American history every few years.

Writing this review has convinced me I was quite wrong. The actions of the Federal government at Waco, both in relation to how the enterprise was conceived and to how it was defended to the public afterwards, clearly show that (indeed, as various gun nuts, self-styled "patriots" and other right-wing populists have been insisting for two years now) Waco was not just a case of incompetent government responding to something that it couldn't leave alone, but represents a general and disturbing claim by the government about its authority over all American citizens. For, as Gary Wills wrote recently when discussing the Oklahoma
bombing in the New York Review of Books (August 10, 1995), there "is something new" in the claims of these right-wing groups, by comparison to conspiracy theorists throughout American history, and the reason is that it is hard, as Wills says, "to trace the exact line where extremism spills over into 'mainstream' concerns about liberty". They are something new because the assertion of what might be called "liberal authoritarianism", which is now embedded in law-enforcement bureaucracies and which motivated the FBI at Waco, is itself something "new", at least in its virulence and reach.

Read the post at Volkoh; the review excerpt chosen by Kenneth Anderson details the questionable use of CS tear gas on a civilian 'target'(s). And, suggests that the CS tear gas was intended to cause Branch Davidian mother's angst at their children suffering from effects of the gas, because there were no child-sized tear gas masks available in the compound. If Bill Clinton and Janet Reno knowingly targeted the BD children with CS tear gas, then yes, he needs to be brought to trial for war crimes. Against civilians. In the USA.

President Bush never used CS tear gas against civilians in the USA, or we might have heard of it from the media. One never knows.

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UPDATE:

"Waco Stamps" image found by g00gle search; from a fascinating site, "The Ashes of Waco: A blog about the digitization and online presentation of archival materials in the Dick J. Reavis Papers that are related to his book, The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation, about the 1993 raid, siege and burning of the Mt. Carmel Center near Waco, Texas."

Why the Democrat rage at Tea Parties? Why, their coming butt-hurt in November, of course.

Here's some truth for Democrats and our squirmy, flinching lefty trolls. Show me one Tea Party with anywhere near the levels of hatreds like these, commonplace during the protests against George Bush that sprang up (and were mostly ignored by those crying loudest today) over the eight years of President George Bush's administration (where there were adults). Show me one Tea Party that's featured a noose, or a guillotine, used against Obama. Can you imagine the immediate outrage by the MSM and the Left?

Mike Gallagher, responding to Frank Rich's NYT Sunday column...

The Tea Party is simply a thing of beauty. Never have I seen such an outpouring of patriotism and good cheer and optimism all in one place as the Tea Party rallies that I’ve been honored to attend.
...

This is a view of the Tea Party that Frank Rich doesn’t want to acknowledge. The Left will be drawn to the most extreme posters and the inescapable occasional angry sound bite on the evening news to make their case that we’re all just a bunch of angry crazies.

And they will do their best to do what Rich did in the New York Times and try to play their ultimate trump card: that the Tea Party doesn’t like black people.

They are obsessed with the notion that criticism of President Obama just stems from bigots who can’t get over the fact that a black man is in the Oval Office.

Let’s face it: it’s all they’ve got. It’s the best they can do. They cannot dispute the numbers crunched by the Congressional Budget Office. They can’t pretend to ignore the legion of medical doctors who are angry and frightened and disgusted by what Obama Care will do to their practices. They know that government cannot possibly expect to rack up obscene spending and hope for a decreasing deficit.

Democrats and these lefty trolls (exemplified and empowered by the likes of Markos Moulitsas), they've been slapped down by the CBO, and they are facing November.

No wonder they're flouncing about with such apparent butt-hurt.

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Bill Clinton, lying sack of shiite, is at it again.

Jim Treacher expounds on the boundaries of taste what the Left lacks...

The Oklahoma City bombing was 15 years ago today, and Clinton chooses to honor the memory of the people who were murdered by using them to chastise those who oppose a Democratic administration. Again. As Byron York recalls:

Clinton was in deep political trouble in April 1995. Six months earlier, voters had resoundingly rejected Democrats in the 1994 mid-term elections, giving the GOP control of both House and Senate. Polls showed the public viewed Clinton as weak, incompetent and ineffective. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his GOP forces seized the initiative on virtually every significant issue, while Clinton appeared to be politically dead. The worst moment may have come on April 18, the day before the bombing, when Clinton plaintively told reporters, “The president is still relevant here.”
And then came the explosion at the Murrah Federal Building. In addition to seeing a criminal act and human loss, Clinton and Morris saw opportunity. If the White House could tie Gingrich, congressional Republicans and conservative voices like Rush Limbaugh to the attack, then Clinton might gain the edge in the fight against the GOP.

Oh, and 80% of Americans say they can't trust Washington.

Mark Silva reminds us of what this low-confidence in Government means...

Only 22 percent of all Americans surveyed say they trust the government in Washington almost always or most of the time -- among the lowest measures in half a century - according to a new Pew Research Center survey released tonight.
The results point to "a perfect storm'' of public unrest, Pew reports -- "a dismal economy, an unhappy public, (a) bitter, partisan-based backlash and epic discontent with Congress and elected officials.
"Growing numbers of people want the power of government curtailed,'' Pew reports of a mid-March survey that has found "less of an appetite for government solutions to the nation's problems - including more government control over the economy - than there was when Barack Obama first took office...
"The public's hostility toward government seems likely to be an important election issue favoring the Republicans this fall,'' Pew reports. "However, the Democrats can take some solace in the fact that neither party can be confident that they have the advantage among such a disillusioned electorate. Favorable ratings for both major parties, as well as for Congress, have reached record lows while opposition to congressional incumbents, already approaching an alltime high, continues to climb.''
There have been political ramifications in the past when the public mood grew this sour: In 1980, Ronald Reagan unseated President Jimmy Carter. In 1994, the GOP won the House.

Back to my favorite punching bag, Bill (What's That Under My Desk?!) Clinton. Seems he's now nearly a worse ex-president than the other Democrat ex-president, consummate fool Jimmy Carter.

On second thought, give both of those Democrat Dunces free reign to speak. The more they speak, the better it is for the rest of us.  Who need to laugh on occasion.

Oh, and Jimmy Carter, this started on your watch...

Leave Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton alone! because laughter, it's the best medicine.

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Amazing Photo: Lightning Strikes in Iceland's Eyafallajökull Volcano's Ash Column

Lightning, but no planes. Even mighty BHO had to sit this one out.

There's more photos here.

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Tea Party photos, some Democrats on the wrong end of polls, and some massive debt realities.

This photo one of a collection of excellent photos by photographer El Marco at Looking at the Left dot com. Check out his excellent work.

Other items of interest...

"Comprehensive Congressional Reform" on it's way: Harry Reid is down double digits in his bid to win re-election in Nevada. We'll bid you adieu soon enough. Jackass. Even Barbara Boxer is squirming in some hot water; hot enough to summon Master Obama to soothe her pains. Good for her; she deserves his 'support'.

Master Obama said to his cheering hand-picked supporters that the American people should thank him. For CHANGE, I suppose; for a chance to become a second-rate nation too broke to pay for even space exploration. Think I'm kidding?

All money in the United States, except coins, is created as someone's debt. When our nation spends more than it takes in, a deficit is created and our government "borrows" the money mainly from commercial banks. As the debt builds, so does the interest. As the interest takes up a larger percentage of the budget, real programs get squeezed.

The latest example of the squeeze is Obama's announcement cancelling future manned space flights. No more advancing the human race in space, it's too expensive. NASA's total annual budget? $18 billion. Amount spent on interest on just the current national debt? At the traditional rate of 5% it will total more than $700 Billion in 2010! But guess what? While the Treasury Department reports that "only" $383 billion was spent on interest last year..., ...the real amount of money spent on interest last year alone nearly equals the total amount of money our government takes in!

Please let that sink in.

We're well on the way to becoming a second-rate debtor nation. Poor, and broke as hell. Sort of like Cuba, where we find this Cuban dirty socialist, who fought for Castro and turned out last week to give more support for dirty socialism... Veteran Raul Ramirez attends the 49th anniversary of Fidel Castro's announcement of Cuba becoming a socialist state in Havana, Friday, April 16, 2010. Ramirez, 82, fought in Cuba's revolution that toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista and brought Fidel Castro to power 51 years ago. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

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Useful Idiots: Where do we start? Charles M. Blow, let's start with you.

Spotted at Big Journalism.

How's about we start with New York Times opinion writer Charles M. Blow, who today bloviated about the Tea Partiers being mostly white, and obviously only in place to harass our First Black President, because...he's black ?

Is that really the case, Mr. Blow?

So, Mr. Blow, you're proven to be just another racialist who supports Obama just BECAUSE he is black IN SPITE of his radical far-left ideology. Says to me that you are much less an American than those who were the founders of this country, and far much more of a racist than those of us who would save this country from what Benjamin Franklin knew would result from the slothful coming along who could vote themselves monies from the Treasury: the end of the Republic.

You, and others of your ideology, are far removed from what this Republic was conceived on, and what this Republic requires to survive. You, leftists, racists, dividers, are merely moochers who wants, wants, wants, but never wants to strive for anything more than handfed mediocrity. Why is that, Mr. Blow?

I think you would support BHO BECAUSE he is black no matter what ideology he espouses. That's pure, unadulterated racism, and you are a racist.

Stick that in your heckelphone and bloviate it.

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Tea Party Photos, April 15, 2010

In Washington DC, New Jersey and Nashville.

My favorites, a couple progg 'protesters' getting shoved and hauled away.

Lucky, those two weenies, that the Tea Partiers weren't in really foul moods.

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Gloria Estefan, Emilio Estefan catch Cuban Ire for hosting Dirty Socialist Fundraiser in Miami

Ruh roh...there's not a lot of love in the Cuban community in Miami for Barack Hussein Obama, who, along with Democrats, are viewed as abortionists, purveyors of ObamaCare and bringers of a Welfare State. Now that not-love is slathered onto the Estefans, who have decided to host BHO and his troupe of Dirty Socialist Party Democrats for a fundraiser today in Miama.

Seems that most Cubans are on to the Social Democrats, and having the Estefans host a fundraiser for 'em is more than these good Americans can stand.

From the Miami Herald...

The Estefans may have broken more than a rule when they decided to host a cocktail reception for the president during his visit to South Florida on Thursday. Estefan, along with husband Emilio, also broke a bond that had united them with Miami's Cuban community, whose members largely oppose the president's agenda.
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They are hosting a $30,400-a-couple fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee, and, by extension, helping to fund the entire Democratic Party agenda. It's a proactive, partisan stance that goes well beyond, say, deciding to sing at a presidential inauguration or accepting a presidential appointment to oversee a nonpartisan cause.

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Mention the Estefans and many no longer conjure up images of freedom and catchy tunes. Now -- rightly or wrongly -- many associate the name with Obamacare, abortion, powerful unions, creation of a welfare state. [emboldenings mine]

Everything is so politically charged right now. Our country is on the verge of a collapse, we can all feel it; just over the next horizon, but edging ever closer. Like a massive storm, we feel the electricity in the air.

Can you feel dig it?

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Obama points at Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is not amused.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper seems a bit dejected here, maybe? No?

I don't think so. Note the clenched fist.

(If you needs translation, feel free to ask.  )

h/t Jim Treacher @ The DC Trawler (where there is swordfish aplenty!)

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Obama's White House Closed to Free Press: "World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow."

From Washington Post's Dana Milbank...

They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.

In the middle of it all was Obama -- occupant of an office once informally known as "leader of the free world" -- putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words: "I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session."

Reporters for foreign outlets, admitted for the first time to the White House press pool, got the impression that the vaunted American freedoms are not all they're cracked up to be.

There's your 'open and free dialogue' Obama promised during his lying election campaign ..."to be the most open and transparent ever."

I wonder how many instances of "Bush-like behavior" it's going to take to get the hard-core leftists to start squeaking? More Milbank...

Obama's official schedule for Tuesday would have pleased China's Central Committee. Excerpts: "The President will attend the Heads of Delegation working lunch. This lunch is closed press. . . . The President will meet with Prime Minster Erdogan of Turkey. This meeting is closed press. . . . The President will attend Plenary Session II of the Nuclear Security Summit. This session is closed press."

Reporters, even those on the White House beat for two decades, said these were the most restricted such meetings they had ever seen. They complained to both the administration and White House Correspondents' Association, which will discuss the matter Thursday with White House press secretary Robert Gibbs.

That will be a hoot. Robert Gibbs is a buffoon who represents a secretive president, one who's fooled a full 54% of the voting public. At least for awhile, he fooled that many people. He's lost a large swath of independent voters.  But since he can continue to provide handouts and 'free shit' to his core moochers people, they might be seeing the problems inherent in this administration, but won't say or do anything that might interfere with the candy. Good Americans, aren't they all?

More Milbank...

The restrictions have become a common practice for the Obama White House. When Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu came to the White House a couple of weeks ago, reporters were kept away. Soon after that, Obama signed an executive order on abortion, again without any coverage.

Over the weekend, Obama broke with years of protocol and slipped off to a soccer game without the "protective" pool that is always in the vicinity of the president in case the unthinkable occurs. Obama joked about it later to Pakistan's prime minister, saying reporters "were very upset."

The most open presidency, evah! "My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government." Oh, but when he speaks, he sounds almost believable, doesn't he?

"We are proud of these accomplishments, but our work is not done," Obama said. "We will continue to work toward an unmatched level of transparency, participation and accountability across the entire administration."

Those of you who are STILL Obama supporters, aren't you proud?

I am now guilty of ECOCIDE !

Supporters of a new ecocide law also believe it could be used to prosecute “climate deniers” who distort science and facts to discourage voters and politicians from taking action to tackle global warming and climate change.

“Ecocide is in essence the very antithesis of life,” says Higgins. “It leads to resource depletion, and where there is escalation of resource depletion, war comes chasing behind. Where such destruction arises out of the actions of mankind, ecocide can be regarded as a crime against peace.”

Come get me, biatches.

Obama bows again; to China's President Hu Jintao

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Well, of course he would. Hu Jintao is paying for ObamaCare, and all the rest of the leftist entitlements BHO is promising.

Previous bows: to Tampa's Mayor Pam Iorio; to Japanese Emperor Akihito; and the big one, to Saudi Royalty King Abdullah.

Interesting...the three 'big donors' to the U.S. Social Democrat candy store daylight raids are China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.

Obama bows to his masters, obviously; they pay for the Democrat's power by paying off voters; George Soros sets the Democrat's policies. Obama is but a mouthpiece and an orator, unskilled and lazy.

You've chosen well, Democrats. But you always do, don't you?

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James Cameron: Sean Penn-Styled Milk-Faced "Hero"

James Cameron rushes to live as an AVATAR, fighting to 'save' the Xingu river in Brazil for it's natives. Cameron befriends a tribe whose existence might be imperiled by the onrushing advancement of PROGRESS and CIVILIZATION; the construction of the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam that would generate power for Brazil's growing needy population...

The Brazilian government has given the green light to the construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the Amazon rainforest that environmentalists and indigenous activists claim will displace indigenous tribes and further damage the Amazon basin.

There were many people in the U.S. who opposed the construction of the TVA's series of flood-control and energy generating hydroelectric dams that are now a mainstay of our grid.

What about the needs of the many? And the environmental benefits of hydroelectricity versus, say, burning more coal and oil?

The proposed construction of the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon state of Para is part of a major government investment drive to help the country keep up with soaring energy demand from a rapidly expanding economy, while curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Hydroelectric power produces no direct carbon dioxide.

Just as is needed in any country. We could probably use a few more here in the U.S., and even Obama realizes we need more nuclear power plants.

What does this flimsy theatrical theater James Cameron is playing hope to prove, anyway? Does his rushing out and 'befriending' these natives mean the project won't continue? Likely not. Cameron certainly doesn't want to live in Brazil. His every need is provided in Malibu.

What we have here is guilt-projection at it's best: a spoiled, rich Hollywood baron shows how 'eco-minded' he is by putting his orangey-painted game face on and hitting the bushes. Cameron and his wife arrive in the jungle (accompanied by three bodyguards: want to guess what sort of non-liberal-endorsed hardware these guys were packing? ); Cameron even helps to 'bail out' a boat that's leaking a bit (remember Sean Penn's antics in New Orleans?) so's he can safely arrive at his destination. A snake falls from a tree, of course a poisonous, deadly sort of rainforest snake. The villagers (who never before saw a snake?) scatter. James (the FEARLESS) Cameron was nonplussed because one of those three paid bodyguards likely killed the thing rather quickly. Cameron's now a newfound hero to these natives, who paint orange "warrior" stripes on Cameron's face. Displacing the milky Sean Penn loads, no doubt.

Probably whatever protective gear the bodyguards packed included a snakebite kit. No wonder Mr. FEARLESS wasn't worried.

What a Sean Penn-milkfaced douchnozzle this James Cameron really is.

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Oh, and h/t to Darleen Click, who has a CAPTION CONTEST ongoing for the above photo. My caption...

Cameron: “That’s a really big cooking-pot hanging over the fire, guys. What’s for dinner?”

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FLASH! OBAMA, BIDEN BURNED IN EFFIGY~!

I got your "Tea Party" ri cheer....

Around the 'net...

Get a rope: Dennis the Peasant wins my coveted 'BLOG POST TITLE OF THE YEAR' ... Use this pic, Dennis. For the metaphor.

Get a wheelbarrow. Hyperinflation is the only way this country will survive...


Dr. Donald Douglas blasts that lousy lefty loser James B. Webb. Nice photoshop, if I do say so myself. Not this one though; another version. Here's this one...

...capturing the essential nature of JBW; a poorly-conceived attention whore. You saw his Easter present to his kids, didn't you? (If I'd seen that before I created those two pshops, I would've changed some things. James B. Webb would be presenting himself right out of goatse.

Off to the river. Later.

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Benjamin Netanyahu says NO to Barack Hussein Obama's Nuclear Summit

I just love it when anyone, anywhere, has the cajones to stand up to our far-left President; especially someone as tough as Israel's Netanyahu.

So, Egypt and Turkey are attending this little peace-pipe pow-wow (not a beer summit, but there might be strong hints of patchouli); once in attendance they they will bounce about like caged monkeys and screech to whoever will listen (BHO will) about Israel's supposed 'nuclear arsenal'. They know it exists; they are scared of it, and now, with Obama as their new supportive 'daddy figure' they will press for Israel to come clean, admit to the arsenal, and try to force her to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty BHO favors. So as to reduce the fear amongst those Muslims who hate the idea of their mortal enemy being able to turn their shithole cities into molten sand.

Netanyahu will stay at home, and send some underlings.Deal.

I don't blame him. Barack Hussein Obama has proved to be an unworthy ally, a menace to peace in the region, and not at all a true Friend to Israel. Not unexpected; just more of the CHANGE BHO promised and is inflicting on this once-great Nation.

We'll see what happens. I hope Israel will fight to the last citizen, to keep that Holy Land theirs. I wish we still had the balls to stand with her.

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Here is one reason Obama is so 'mistreated' by the Right...

Payback, mother frakers.

Other reasons? He's a ideological dirty socialist who's CHANGE is destroying the very fabric of this nation.

Obama is sowing the wind.

Next? The whirlwind.     

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Not Just for Liberals Anymore: Explaining the Meaning of this Tea Party sign to Confuzzled Leftists:

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TPUSA: It's easy. We just want to...

THELEFT: SHUT UP! RAAAAACIST!

TPUSA: ..but it's simple, just let us...

THELEFT: SHUT UP! RAAAAACIST!

TPUSA: ..we just want to express our...

THE LEFT: SHUT UP! RAAAAACIST GODBOTHERING FAT, RACIST, EVANGELICAL CHRIST-FUCKERS FROM RURAL SHITHOLES WHO ARE SO STUPID THAT YOUR VOTES CAN BE BOUGHT WITH BLATHER ABOUT GOD GUNS AND GUB'MINT ! RACISTS! HOMOPHOBES ! SHUT UP!

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TPUSA: So be it. Prepare.

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Arianna Huffington gets PWNED on 'Morning Joe' by several men, including Rudy Giuliani

This dipsy blonde gives a bad name to all wymens.

Rudy, I like you in a lot of ways, you had an excellent opportunity to grab the '08 Republican presidential nomination, but your leftwards stance on gun control had me, and plenty of other like-minded conservatives, dead-set against you right away. Live and learn, Rudy.

Marco Rubio, the next Republican Senator from Florida, Rudy Giuliani and Tea Party approved.

Via @AdrienneRoyer to Politico

"Where's my free Health Care, Obama? Pump my free gas, biatch~!"

The moochers are massing, the freeloaders are lining up for Obama's promised 'free' ObamaCare...

Health care overhaul spawns mass confusion for public

WASHINGTON — Two weeks after President Barack Obama signed the big health care overhaul into law, Americans are struggling to understand how — and when — the sweeping measure will affect them.

Questions reflecting confusion have flooded insurance companies, doctors' offices, human resources departments and business groups.
"They're saying, 'Where do we get the free Obama care, and how do I sign up for that?'"

"We tell them it's not free, that there are going to be things in place that help people who are low-income, but that ultimately most of that is not going to be taking place until 2014," McLean said.

We are all losers now.

Good News! Obama is NOT the AntiChrist!

Insty links to The Gaggle...

Obama Is Not the Antichrist—And Nobody Really Thinks He Is

I didn't think he was that bad. But as far as being a unprincipled dirty socialist ideologue who wants to transform our Nation into something that will likely lead to the Soviet Union-style collapse of our Republic, well, that still remains to be seen.

(But he does look a bit devilish there in that circa-2008 poster I created, doesn't he? I'm thinking that should be seen at a Tea Party somewhere. Feel free... )

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Obama DID do an Easter Egg thing in the White House, after all.

I worried for nothing, then. Our President does care.

No word on whether the White House Easter Eggs were bloody and cracked, though, as JB Webb portrayed on Sunday.

More on Mr. Webb later.

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Tea Party Participants spotted wearing KU KLUX KLAN HOODS and burning CROSSES~!

Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Democrats or independents
The national breakdown of the Tea Party composition is 57 percent Republican, 28 percent Independent and 13 percent Democratic, according to three national polls by the Winston Group, a Republican-leaning firm that conducted the surveys on behalf of an education advocacy group. Two-thirds of the group call themselves conservative, 26 are moderate and 8 percent say they are liberal.

Jeff Goldstein's wondering where, exactly, is the violence that's predicted by all the fainting pearl clutchers?

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Enjoy your day; I'm very busy. Again.

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cartoon spotted at Theo's.

The BUSH Regime...(sorry, strike that) The OBAMA Regime is the one that put Chris Matthews in a quiver.

Bryon York point out that Chris Matthews has a selective memory (goes with the lazy leg)...

By using the word "regime," Limbaugh was doing something he does all the time: throwing the language of the opposition back in their faces. In the Bush years, we often heard the phrase "Bush regime" from some quarters of the left. So Limbaugh applied it to Obama.

Apparently some people didn't get it. On MSNBC, Chris Matthews appeared deeply troubled by the word. "I've never seen language like this in the American press," he said, "referring to an elected representative government, elected in a totally fair, democratic, American election -- we will have another one in November, we'll have another one for president in a couple years -- fair, free, and wonderful democracy we have in this country…. We know that word, 'regime.' It was used by George Bush, 'regime change.' You go to war with regimes. Regimes are tyrannies. They're juntas. They're military coups. The use of the word 'regime' in American political parlance is unacceptable, and someone should tell the walrus [Limbaugh] to stop using it."

I'm not accessing Nexis as Bryon York did, but Bing finds 9.350M answering hits, including the official Wiki entry for the "Presidency of George W. Bush", lovingly answering to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_regime.

You've been discredited again, lefty leg tingly sort of proggtard, Chris Matthews.

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h/t Darleen Click

(B) Women and Children and Men worldwide celebrate Holy Week. Good People.

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(A) President at Easter Sunrise Service: A Good Man.

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