B and B, CDC, POTUS AGREE- DON'T DO ANYTHING

BIDEN, BESSER AGREE- NO POINT IN CLOSING BORDER

PRESIDENT SAYS 'LIKE CLOSING THE BARN DOOR...'

V.P Cautions His Own Family to Avoid Planes, Trains, Subways

Vice President Joe Biden made an appearence with acting director of the CDC Dr. Richard Besser and attempted to allay the fear of a swine flu pandemic in the United States.

The V.P. downplayed the precaution of border control and school closings, saying it would not make a difference at this point. He echoed  the statement of the President, who quipped at his news conference that closing the borders is "like closing the barn doors after the horse has gone".

Biden says that closing the borders in response to the growing number of infectious people in the country would be just too complicated and difficult when it would be easier to close schools and postpone group meetings and events. 

In other words- don't let this be an inconvenience to the free movement of people into the country, let it be an inconvenience to the people already here.

The U.S. g'overnment's emmasculated reaction to the threat goes against the rest of the world, where strict and stringent measures are being taken to contain the spread of the disease.  Where Korea sets up monitors to detect anyone with a fever, Mexico closes gathering-places city wide and in Egypt tightens travel controls, the CDC and the Vice President agree- the best thing you can do is wash your hands. 

Although the V.P. has cautioned his own family not to travel by plane or train, the CDC has no plans to issue a travel caution to the citizens at large, declaring it "too early" for such a step.  

The WHO has already recommended several steps for countries to deal with the outbreak, namely travel restrictions and avoiding crowds. 

YES, WE'RE CANNED

MSNBC TO MAKE ROOM FOR BOARDERS

D.C. NEWS OPERATION SHRINKS, RENTS SPACE TO UNIVERSITY

Another Casualty of Dem Victory

The Washington, D. C. studios of WRC-TV, which houses NBC news and MSNBC becomes another casualty of cutbacks. They will be rennovating their studios and offices and making room for the media department of the University of Washington in an effort to continue a presence in the natiion's capitol.

Trailing in the cable ratings by an embarrassing margin since before the elections, MSNBC's powerhouse lineup of talking heads- Chris Matthews, Keith Oberman, Chris Todd and Rachel Maddox- have continually been beaten by the entire lineup of FOX news. 

Many viewers were put off by what seemed to be blatent bias in their reporting of the election and the constantly annoying use of the high-tech telestrator board used by bureau chief Chris Todd as well as the heavily pro-Obama propagandizing by Matthews and the vicious anti-Bush bashing by Oberman and Maddox. 

Senate Seat Shuffle

SENATOR SPECTER TURNS COAT

SWITCHES PARTY TO GIVE DEMS A BOOST

"Hell, I thought he was a Democrat already"

Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania joined the party of the Majority by switching his allegiance from Republican to Democrats in an attempt to hold onto his Senate seat in the upcoming 2010 elections.

Billing himself as a Centrist Republican, Specter faced a tough battle against Pat Toomey for the seat. Specter was thought to have no chance in the Republican primaries because of his liberal voting record recently concerning his support of the Stimulus bill rushed through Congress this session, which conservatives have decried. 

Specter himself states that the Republican party has moved too far right and that his ideology more closely aligns with the Democratic party.

Okay, Mr. Credibility lost me in '63 with the Magic Bullet theory. Good luck to him.

YA GOTTA BE KIDDIN' ON THIS ONE

KIDNAPPED SAILOR TO SUE SHIPPING LINE

SHIPS COOK SAYS COMPANY KNEW IT WAS DANGEROUS AND DID NOTHING TO PROTECT WORKERS.

Them's pyrates yonder Cap'n

Richard E. Hicks, the ship's cook aboard the Maersk Alabama is suing the owners of the vessel, Waterman Steamship Corp. for at least $75000, accusing the line of putting its sailors in harm's way by sailing near Somalia.

Hicks says the shippers should choose safer routes, arm sailors aboard the ships,  add other safety measures such as barbed wire to prevent boarding and provide better training for such situations.

Perhaps the ship's cook should look for a different kind of work since sea travel has been dangerous since ships took sail.  It couldn't be that he is just looking for a fat payday to retire from the kitchen, could it?

STUCK IN A TIME WARP...AGAIN

LEFTIE DOC BLAMES BUSH FOR MINORITY HOME FORCLOSURES

SECOND-GENERATION LIB ACTIVISTS CONTINUE TREND IN LOOK BACK

First it was stuck in the Sixties, now the Nineties on the endless loop

Variety, the entertainment news of record, is reporting the release of a documentary AMERICAN CASINO, released by Table Rock Films, produced and directed by Leslie and Andrew Cockburn.

The flick explores the root of the current mortgage crisis with interviews with evil bankers and unfortunate minority homebuyers who were tricked, manipulated and conned into buying more house than they could afford. 

The bankers admitted onscreen (although they were in shadow for obvious reasons) that they manipulated the numbers on the mortgages- inflating the worth of the homebuyers and deflating the numbers of the actual cost to the investors then quickly sold off the loans to investors and holding companies to make obscene profits with no risk. 

The anti-Bush sentiment rears its ugly head when there is a scene where President Bush proudly announces the rise in minority home ownership.

This is another example of BushBashing from the leftielibs without regard for historical context. Anyone with any memory at all should recall that the leftielibs were howling about banks and mortgage companies being racist for not lending more blacks money for new homes and that their lapdogs in Congress, Barney Frank and the Black Caucus, pressured the industry to extend a hand to rectify this historical bias under threat of Congressional action. 

Thus, the doors were opened to this economic freefall by the very persons who howl the loudest about the economic freefall, and they have no shame in blaming the former President once again for decisions made by the Left supposedly to help the less fortunate. 

Natually, three "victims" of the unscrupulous bankers pour their hearts out bewailing the unfairness that they got the loans they sought but in the end they couldn't afford.  Lack of due diligence plays into their plight, but then, that would smack of personal responsibility and the Left would never advocate for that sort of hogwash.

The leftielibs used to be stuck in the Sixties, endlessly replaying the glory days of protests against the Establishment, tearing down the rules of civilization and promoting licence over freedom (yes, there is a difference) Now, they are stuck in the Nineties, endlessly blaming all of the ills of the world on Bush.

IMF TO SELL BONDS TO BUCK UP WORLD ECONOMIES

PLAN TO OFFER BONDS TO RICH COUNTRIES RATHER THAN EXTEND LOANS

Default on loans impossible, leads way to forclosure of poor countries

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund is considering selling bonds to shore up teeterig economies in many developing countries rather than extend loans to them, it was announced today. 

Countries such as China has expressed interest in buying up the bonds, and India and Brazil as well have pushed for the idea. 

The bonds will replace long-term loans usually given to developing nations from advanced nations in Europe and North America. 

Represenatives from struggling developing nations rallied for the idea, saying they "didn't want to be pushed around by advanced nations any more."

They seem to think owing China is preferable to owing Western nations. 

Let's see how that works for them.

WTF HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 24

SWINE FLU PANDEMIC THREATENS U.S.

POLITICALLY CORRECT POLS OVERLOOK THE OBVIOUS

Is it possible epidemic terrorist plot?

Mexico City is virtually a ghost town as the central government has essentially shut down the largest city in the Western Hemisphere due to a virulent outbreak of swine flue. 

The difficulty of pinning this virus down comes from the discovery that it is a mutation of three or more different flu strains, swine, avian and human. Such a mutation is a new wrinkle for the CDC and WHO who seek to contain the disease as quickly as possible. 

Already the disease has spread from Mexico City to southern United States and as far away as Canada by returning tourists. 

Conspiracy theorists are already jumping on this as a terrorist plot, reasoning that such a complicated mutation of disparite virus strains is not possible in nature.

S.F. MAYOR TO TOSS HAT IN GOV RING

COUNTING ON LEFTIE-LIBS FOR LANDSLIDE

Liberal San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced he will make a run at the Governor's office next year, hoping to replace Arnold Schwarzenegger's brand of centrist politics with his own hard Left leanings.  He feels he has the support of the majority of California voters who traditionally vote Democratic and liberal in most elections.

His biggest hurdle, aside from a possible challenger from the Los Angeles basin, will be the overwhelming budget problems that is currently plaguing the current state government. Newsom is banking on the budget being under control, or at least off the headlines, in time for him to begin the liberal facelift of the state. Using environmental and social issues at his calling card, Newsom plans to positition himself well in front of liberal issues.

SUNSHINE AND SHINOLA DEPARTMENT

PRESIDENT SIGNS $5 B VOLUNTEER BILL

AMERICORP TO PUT MILLIONS TO 'WORK'

"Hey, I've got nothing better to do with my time since I'm unemployed, the economy is so bad there isn't any other jobs out there, and the government isn't going to even try to bring back industry to this country"

President Obama signed a $5.7 Billion-dollar bill to fund the tripling of AmeriCorps to expand the network of national service volunteers in the United States.

Good timing too. With so many people out of work, well, idle hands are the Devil's workshop. By putting people to work, for free, many overlooked and underfunded jobs can be completed, such as cleaning blighted neighborhoods, playgrounds and roadsides. 

Now, the questions are these:

How are these volunteers going to make their house payments, utilities, groceries and such while volunteering?

Why can't the administration put this much effort into allowing businesses to grow in this country, rather than growing another government program?

Who in the hell gets $5.7 billion of my dollars for volunteer work? Let them volunteer their own money, or better yet, work for free like the poor slobs are doing for them.

OBAMA TO SPEAK WITH CREDIT CARD COMPANIES

GOING TO STRAIGHTEN SOME THINGS OUT AROUND HERE

President Obama is scheduled to meet with the represenatives of the Credit Card industry this week to arm-twist them into changing some of their business practices such as predatory lending practices, interest rate changes and hidden fees.

According to the president, too many Americans have fallen prey to the unscrupulous practices of the credit card industry and they must be protected. 

As for the card industry, the practice of raising interest rates on existing balances is the most shameful of their practices, and if the President simply stops that one, he will have gone the distance for many Americans who find themselves with double interest rate increases even after not missing any payments. 

PELOSI AND FAR LEFT TO 'INVESTIGATE' BUSH DESPITE WHITE HOUSE ADMONITION

LEFTIE DEMS TO APPOINT SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO ATTEMPT INDICTMENT OF BUSH-ERA LEGAL ADVISOR, CABINET AND V.P. 

"MUST SATISFY BLOOD-LUST WITH EX POST FACTO RULINGS IF NECESSARY"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today called for a special investigator to delve into the legal opinion offered to the Bush Administration for justification of incarceration and interrogation of suspected Al Quaida operatives, despite repeated demurrers from President Obama.

Long-suffering liberals on the Far Left have been frustrated for months by the inability for any action to punish the Bush administration for alleged wrongs commited in the last eight years. Whining and wailing to no avail and actively discouraged by Obama's policy of looking forward instead of to the past has shown the lack of interest in such a show trial. 

By setting such a precident, the speaker and the lefties will leave open the door to future purges and pogroms of Democratic administrations.

As always, there has been no thought of cause and effect within the Democratic party. 

RHYMES WITH SNORE DEPARTMENT

PREZ SEZ 'DON'T SWEAT IT. THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG ANYWAY'

CIA OPS TOLD THE ENEMY ALREADY KNOWS THEIR SUPER SECRET INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES LIKE WATERBOARDING, SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND ENDLESS MILLI VANILLI REPLAYS TO BREAK DOWN ENEMY COMBATANTS WITHOUT TRAMPLING THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS THAT THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYWAY, SO WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL ABOUT PUBLISHING THEM OPENLY? HUH?

AGENTS APPLAUD OBAMA'S OPEN DOOR POLICY. SAY LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR WITH HINT OF MINT.

President Obama spoke to agents of the CIA today about his decision to release Bush-era memos outlining various previously secret interrogation techniques now regarded as torture, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, isolation, and non-lethal physical violence.

Speaking to the agents along with Leon Panetta, Obama assured them that they are the unsung heroes of the now-defunct War on Terror but that they should hold their heads high for the fine work they have performed so far. He told them that he realizes that they feel like they are working with one hand tied behind their back, but that such a position would be considered torture and would not be allowed.

After the speech, spokesmen for the rank and file CIA agents petitioned Congress to declare being forced to endure another such speech be labeled torture and be outlawed.

SUNDAY MORNING SWILL

TREASURY STRESSING OVER STRESS TEST RESULTS

IT'S LOSE-LOSE FOR REGULATORS, BANKS, INVESTORS

The May 4th deadline for release of the Treasury Department's results of their financial stress tests for the nation's banks may be delayed until a decision is made on how to release the information.

The Office of the Comptroller of Currency wants to hide the results from the public eye and the Treasury is pushing for broad disclosure.

The problem for Treasury Secretary Tim Geither is that if some of the information shows certain banks in trouble, investors will leave in droves, crashing the already wounded institutions and leaving the Treasury holding the bag. If they cover up the troubled banks true situation, that will taint any credibility they have left. 

The plan to go after the the big bad bankers for the sake of the sucker vote sounded good on paper but like a lot of leftie plans, it wasn't thought through thoroughly to its conclusion.  Now they are in a position to, once again and certainly not for the last time, to say 'whoops' and try to skate on.

Stop helping us would be a big help.

ENVIRONMENTAL REGS TRUMP 'GREEN' POWER SOURCE

OH, THE IRONY IS ON THE FIRE NOW

The Obama Administration's full-throated plan to create sustainable green power for America to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and create millions of green jobs to save the economy ran into a roadblock of the Democrat Libs making when the National Park Service, acting under repressive ecological guidelines, denied the building of a solar panel array in the deserts of California, Nevada and Arizona.

The arrays and the massive construction of new high-voltage power lines would alter the ecosystem of  indigenous species of desert tortoise, pupfish and threaten water drawdowns in the water-starved region.

The Liberal Left- bringing you complex solutions for simple problems.

MORE GREEN  SOLUTIONS TURN BROWN

ETHANOL- THE FUEL NOBODY REALLY WANTS

Yet another much-touted solution to our fossil fuel consumption is running into an economic hurdle- nobody wants to buy it.

Ethanol, the corn-based fuel additive that was supposed to relieve the United States' dependency on foreign oil imports, has proven to be the boondoggle many on the right warned it would be. 

Aside from taking massive amounts of food substance out of the mouths of hungry people around the world, the water-intensive, over-fertilized and over-hyped production of 'green' energy has yielded less than two percent of the fuel used in the country. Industry estimates that at full production, using every acre of corn possible, would only account for less than ten percent of the fuel needs of the United States.

At this point, with the economy faltering and energy prices worldwide ebbing, purchases of the government subsidized product is next to nothing and croppers are considering using their corn in food production once again. 

When is a good idea not one? 

GLOBALIZATION? UMMM...MAYBE NOT

Delta Air Joins Other Major Corps In Pulling Back Call Centers From Overseas As Customer Resistance Affects Bottom Line

Delta Airlines plans to close its overseas call centers in India due to widespread customer discontent in dealing with foreign-language operators in its reservations department. 

Delta joins Sallie Mae and other major corportations in bringing their call centers back to the United States rather than risk further customer erosion. 

It turns out that cheap overseas labor is really a money loser. 

WELL...UM...MAYBE BUSH WAS RIGHT

OBAMA WILL NOT PROSECUTE "TORTURERS"

Says "they were only following orders"

President Obama announced today that he will not prosecute government agents for "harsh" interrogation methods used,  saying he will continue to investigate their superiors who ordered such techniques.

His left-wing supporters, who elected him under the premise that he would bring the "torturers" to justice, fumed and howled. 

The President agreed that the need for immediate and expedited information gathering outweighed other concerns in the previous administration's war on terror. The agents accused of torturing were acting within the bounds  of law according to the then Attorney General and thus could not be held accountable for their actions which they were assured were legal.

Attorney General Eric Holder also said that the Justice Department would defend any agent who faced any trial, in the U. S. or in a foreign court for their actions.

The Justice Department also withdrew secret memos outlining the various tactics used during interrogation, saying that to broadcast our techniques would only benefit our enemies.

So it turns out that for all the babbling the lefties did during the election, the President they counted on to take Bush and his administration to task has disappointed them once again.

EPA TO IMPOSE ECONOMIC NIGHTMARE

TIGHTER STANDARDS FOR AUTOS, FACTORIES MEANS U.S.A REDUCED TO THIRD WORLD STANDARDS OF LIVING.

THE SIMPLE LIFE AHEAD FOR AMERICANS.

The Environmental Protection Agency took the first step towards imposing devastating regulations on American autos and factories by concluding that "greenhouse gasses" endanger the health and well-being of humans, setting the stage for onerous regulation of polluters.

The action is the first step in imposing harsh limits on any pollutant labeled "climate changing", which, by definition, is every substance known to science. 

Basing their ruling on the still-unproven and likely untenable theory advanced by Al Gore and his hollow-eyed sycopants numbly repeating junk science conclusions, the EPA decided to go ahead and push the economy-crushing regulations onto the manufacturing industry. 

HOW'S YOUR B.S. DETECTOR TODAY?

The catch with all of this weighty regulatory gutting of the American economy is two-fold: developing nations such as China, Nigeria, Bolivia and others, currently considered growing Third world countries, may be exempt from such regulation. And there is a rider in the proposed bilthat allows wealthy corportations to buy carbon credits to continue polluting. Who benefits from merely trading the right to pollute at will for cash? Why, the Federal Government. 

Hmmmmm

WTF HEADLINES APRIL 17,2009

HOMELAND SECURITY SAYS YOU, YES YOU, ARE A TERRORIST

Don't even try to deny it, you radical conservative scumbag

Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano issued a report today including a footnote that outlines several new profiles for police and other security personnel to watch for in the war on terrorism. 

Included in the footnote are characterizations of citizens who might turn to domestic terrorism in times of national turmoil, such as the economic travails we are currently experiencing today. 

Among those on the watch list are: military veterans, conservative speakers, one-issue groups (for their example anti-abortionists, anti-illegal immigration groups), tax protesters, anti-Obama groups and gun owners.

Let me see...I don't see any anti-American foreign nationals on expired visas, left-wing tree-spiking eco-terrorists, G-7 rioters,  those a-holes on bicycles who jam up traffic every month in the city, or burnt-out druggies with guns and no boundries. 

Where exactly does the threat to  this country come from? Must be from those malcontents who work and pay taxes and carry the burden for those latte-sipping a**leakers and their "like to make the world a better place for diversity" types who want you and me to live like serfs, beholding to their fantasy of a rainbow world. 

Hey, they can't win on ideas because people realize that all that nonsense they puke is invalid and unfair, so they have to marginalize and demean and then create new laws to silence the majority.

Well, the pendulum swings and change is in the wings.  People on both sides of the ticket are waking up and seeing that the American People have been propagandized and manipulated for at least two decades by all of this left-wing pablum and the pricetag has ruined us, and that the leaders we elect, no matter of what party, do not heed to the will of the people. Even lefties are left scratching their head at our president, who okayed the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, maintains the presence in Iraq, okayed the torture of suspects, continues wiretapping and email reading, and have increased the number and types of people under surveillence by Government agencies in just three short months, trumping six years of Bush jackbooting. 

Whew! They are good!

Now, I have always said that if you are going to be serious about the war on terror, you must include domestic groups along with foreign, so I don't have a problem with the new rules, but protesting abortion, being pissed off at the actions of the government, not wanting illegal aliens to move with impunity across the borders and the like are not and should not be a criminal act, since it is within our constitutional right to ask redress from out government and although the process the government desires is more through courts and lawyers, it is high time the good citizens got together and made this appeal for redress a little more personal and a little more intimidating. 

When you get right down to it, all politicians are opportunists and yellow-dog bullies who have the means to enforce their will while keeping themselves out of harms way. Well, citizens, keep coming, keep pressuring. After all, didn't the British label us terrorists 240 years ago?

The hostage captain of the Maersk Alabama Captain Richard Phillips was freed from his Somali captors aft

er diving overboard. A short but intense gunfight erupted after the escape in which U.S. Navy SEALS blasted three of the four Somali pirates into oblivion and captured the fourth. 

Somali pirates onshore have told media that they have learned their lesson. It didn't sound like they plan to get honest jobs though. More than likely they won't spend a long time negotiating in the future. 

Somali villagers fear that the several dozen foreign nationals already being held as hostages will now come to harm in retaliation and that foreign militaries may begin escalating their responses, bombing and shelling their villages. 

Hmmmm. Maybe plan B would be to get the hell out of Dodge and take a few hostages with them as a gesture of good will, turn them over to the authorities safely, disavow the pirates and return the goods to their rightful owner. 

Once again the U.S. has had to lead the way to show the world that you just can't fuck with the last remaining superpower no matter how much we have been weakened by our own government. We are hardly a third world nation yet.

WTF STORIES APRIL 9, 2009

 KERRY ITCHING TO GIVE PIRATES A SEVERE TONGUE-LASHING

"AMERICAN MUST TALK SOFTLY AND BURY THE BIG STICK" SAYS SENATOR

As the Somali pirates have their way with the American merchant ship Maersk Alabama Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry declared it was high time to discuss the parameters of response the United States might use in dealing with the increasingly bold and daring Somali pirates. 

Perhaps he should look to examples in history for some of his ideas. When the pirates of Tripoli were making a point of raiding American shipping in the nineteenth century, President Jefferson wasted no time sending the United States Navy and Marines to put down the pirates once and for all. 

Of course, Senator Kerry is against any further expenditures for the military, so maybe his solution would be to palaver them into submission.