Remember how the libs whined about the patriot act?

Yes, the patriot act.  That was the one that authorized the government to (without an immediate warrant) listen in on phone conversations.  They still had to get a warrant but they could get it later.  Presumably if no warrant was allowed, the evidence could not be used.  There were also some "rules" about it.

It's more complex than this but I shall summarize:

1 - The phone call had to originate from another country.

2 - They had to have reason to believe one of the numbers belonged to a terrorist.

Ohhhhh, the libs screamed bloody murder about this ... on and on and on ... daily harping by the media. I'm sure you recall.

Well,  now the Obama administration is trying to get an OK to track your cell phone ... WITHOUT a warrant.  From what I can tell, they don't have to get a warrant later either.  Do I care?  Only because it doesn't require a warrant ... which means that it can be abused easier ... which means we're losing some freedom here.

Anyway, do you hear anything from the media about this?  Shall they harp on and on and on?  Of course not.  You know why?  Because the Dipshitocrats are doing it, that's why ... and anything the Dipshitocrats do is just fine an dandy with the media ... capisce?  They only care when conservatives do something like this.  Actually, it doesn't matter WHAT conservative intiatives come up, the media are against them.

Even though police are tapping into the locations of mobile phones thousands of times a year, the legal ground rules remain unclear, and federal privacy laws written a generation ago are ambiguous at best. On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices.

In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their--or at least their cell phones'--whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that "a customer's Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records" that show where a mobile device placed and received calls. More here:

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Better late than never

Chris Matthews Continues to Convince Us That He's a Blithering Buffoon.

See WOMBAT's blog for video- it's not showing up here for some reason.

At least they don't perpetuate the myth that Liberals are snicker and condescending jackasses who have never lived down getting shoved into lockers in high school.

If MSNBC and CNN are really wondering why FOX is getting all the good ratings, they really should watch the network for a little while and pay attention. The hosts of the shows rarely snicker, never condescend to people who don't agree with their points, and when they have more than one guest on the air, it's invariably someone with a differing opinion from the first.

This video is a painfully reminiscent of what it must be like when a cheerleader tries to join drama club. For the first time, the people in drama club get to be the ones to exclude the "popular people" and do everything to pour as much acid as they can muster.

I know that Chris Matthews isn't a journalist- he's an entertainer so I really shouldn't take him seriously at all. After watching this video, I don't see how anyone could take him seriously at all.

From ITHM
Crossposted on WOMBAT's blog See my blog for video. It's not showing up here for some reason.

Doctor yanks dumbass fatty into reality

A foul-mouthed New Zealand surgeon has been reprimanded after swearing at a severely obese patient.

A 44-year-old mother filed a complaint about the doctor after a tense consultation with him last year, The New Zealand Herald reports.

The doctor said f--- at least three times to the Maori woman after she told him she didn't like the word "diet" and preferred the term "lifestyle".

He told her she was, "going on a f---ing diet". More here :

Too funny.  "Lifestyle change."  Ohhhhh, PUL-LEASE!  See, here's the call, you have to eat less calories.  That is called a DIET.  Now you can call it a lifestyle change but it's really a diet.  Here's another one the fatties use ... "Journey."  As in "I'm on a journey."  No fatso, you're on a fucking DIET!  Maybe when you pull your head out of your ass and realize that, you'll lose some weight.  Stop blaiming everyone and everything but yourself.

What? The government SQUANDERING tax money?

POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) -- The Polk County school district is giving away iPods to some parents.

The school district is using the device to reward parents of children with disabilities who fill out a 10-minute online survey. The district wants to know how well it's connecting with the parents and how to get parents involved in their children's education.

The district is spending about $350,000 in federal stimulus money for the iPods. From here:

Ha ha, yeah.  Looks like we're going to have to raise taxes.

Chuck Todd, NBC's Political Director and Chief Doofus

From I Hate The Media (IHTM)

Chuck Todd, NBC’s political director and chief White House correspondent really didn’t like it when Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon appeared on Fox News Sunday and said, “…the mainstream media hates the tea party movement almost as much as it hates Sarah Palin.”

From the "Morning with Joe" show on MSNBC:

Todd: We all know there are a lot of different ways people get news. And then you have straight journalists, you have activist journalists, you have opinion folks. And we know that they’re all out there. I think we believe here at NBC that people are smart enough to figure it out [yes they are and they don't believe your bullshit for five seconds]. And that’s why when a news executive goes out there and states a crazy accusation like that, that it ends up, it only ends up probably hurting what they’re trying to do, but it creates, it only denigrates all of us ["but it creates, it only denigrates"? What you said? Remember- this guy is NBC's political director and chief White House correspondent. How on earth did he get there?].
. . .
And I’m sorry, there is [are] certain news organizations out here [there] whose agenda is [are] to undermine the 90% of journalists who are just simply trying to cover stories [You know- stop picking on the good, honest, hard-working people who are just trying to do their jobs. Really? Clearly, he has the most disproportionally egotistical people confused with people who actually work for a living.]  out there. And that’s what really frustrates me about what’s happened in the media landscape. It is a business for some media organizations to undermine the quote-unquote [endquote] the [sic] mainstream media because it’s good for their business. And this is not just on the right, it’s happening on the left as well.

 I know it's obvious that he's really talking about ONE "certain news organizations [sic]"- FOX. His use of singular verbs rather plural verbs makes this painfully obvious. If he weren't a Liberal, he'd just come out and say what he actually means instead of half-heartedly feign impartiality. Rather than coming across as diplomatic or tactful, he comes across as being a cowardly rat and that's probably closer to the truth.

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Found at Michelle Malkin's page

Diversity at Harlem Luncheon for Liberal Bloggers.

Here’s a comical story. Last year, “first black president” Bill Clinton held a luncheon in Harlem for a handful of liberal bloggers. Black liberals complained that there were no blacks at the luncheon (where “soul food” was served), though the organizer said he invited some. Below is a photo of bloggers who attended last year’s luncheon:

I can’t tell you how much I laughed and laughed at that photo. I ranted alongside black liberal bloggers about white liberals’ hypocrisy. I even bonded with a couple of them. Fond memories…

From La Shawn Barber

Get the witches -- get their wallets -- it's open season!!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adding a $1 per pack tax to cigarettes could raise more than $9 billion a year for states, health advocates said on Wednesday, and a poll released with the study shows Americans would support such a tax.

Barack Obama | Health

The poll, conducted by International Communications Research, found 60 percent of voters would support the tax to help struggling states and would prefer it over other tax increases or budget cuts.

"An increase in tobacco tax rates is not only sound public health policy but a smart and predictable way to help boost the economy and generate long-term health savings for states facing deepening budget deficits," said John Seffrin, chief executive of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. More here:

By all means, LET'S TAX THOSE WITCHES!!  Dirty, filthy smokers.  While we're at it, let's tax the latte's etc at Starbucks too.  I think $1 per drink would be fine, don't you?  Let's get those soda drinkers too.  They're disgusting.

Keep voting for libs

You are NOT going to believe what goes on in this video ... trust me.

This is the kind of absolute horseshit that goes on thanks to liberals writing laws for lawyers. and appointing their ideological peers to the bench.  This is the kind of absolute horseshit that results from "evil corporations' being forced to pay ridiculous amounts of money in predatory lawsuits.  This behavior can be stopped through action by elected officials.

What do you think would have happened if the security guards intervened?  The media would have made them all out to be criminals.  There would have been hearings at the city council and the lawyers would be swarming.  The funny things is, the same ones who would have swarmed the guards (security company) will instead swarm the city and the taxpayers will pay.

Common sense is gone ... replaced by the wisdom of predatory lawyers and facilitated by the liberals in the congress and the judiciary.  This is why the libs filibustered all of Bush's judicial nominees.  They were used to filling the judicial vacancies (which is crucial to forming society in their desired image) and when Bush started to make appointments to the bench, the libs filibustered.  The filibuster was never used to block judicial appointees until the libs started it. Republicans did not employ this tactic. Nor had the libs until Bush was elected.  When the Republicans had the option to stop it, they failed to act.

Al Gore is a fucking IDIOT!

By Noel Sheppard at Newbusters:

The cover of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's new book "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" was intentionally doctored to exaggerate the appearance of hurricanes in the northern hemisphere as well as reduce the amount of ice present in the Arctic.

Maybe even more ominously, Florida was so diminished it's almost totally gone.

As reported by Florida State University hurricane expert Ryan Maue at the website Watts Up With That, the truth was apparently inconvenient for the Global Warmingist-in-Chief (h/t NBer Blonde):

The cover opens and closes half and half - so you only see one hurricane...as in the press release photo or the one on Amazon.

But this is the real picture sequence from the book which I looked at Borders today and took cell-phone pictures, original (before the retouching by some "artist") Note all of the Arctic ice and the size of the Florida Peninsula...

 

According to Maue, this is the full, unfolded cover:

Hey! Where'd Florida go? 

With hurricane activity at 30-year lows, and Arctic ice levels on the rise, I guess Gore and Company figured they needed some help proving their point. 

What?  AlGore lying and cheating and stealing?  Nah, can't be possible. Didn't he win a Nobel prize or something?  By the way, there's something else that's obviously fake about this pic.  I'll let you try to figure it out (has to do with the hurricanes.)  If no one figures it out, I'll reveal it in the comments tomorrow ... or maybe Friday.

From Newsbusters:

Trouble lurking - the end is near

Jim DeMint & Lynn Jenkins

(Jim DeMint, R-SC) The conservative senator took to Twitter on Tuesday amid reports that the area is due to receive another 10 to 20 inches of snow this week:

It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries "uncle"

Forget it, Jim. Al Gore is a lib and as such is incapable of learning.  If he could learn, he'd be a conservative.  Libs are also incapable of humiliation, which is why he'll go to his grave swearing that global warming is real and caused by humans.

The South Carolina senator was not the first Republican to use the snowstorm to make a political point. Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kansas) said that absence of votes in the House is a plus for taxpayers.

 

 

You got that right, Lynn.  It would be different if every time they voted the gave us some of our liberty back.  As it is, the jackasses are voting our liberty away as fast as they can.

Yes.

Great Responses... No, Not Really.

The BBC’s Andrew Neil absolutely grills Chief Scientist at the UK’s Department for the Environment, Professor Robert Watson. And who is Watson? Well, Al Gore called him “Hero of the Planet.”
What kind of garbage is this? Does anyone believe these responses at all anymore?

"We've identified the problem and we're working on making sure it never happens again". Yet nobody is punished (aside from the sacrificial lamb/scapegoat) and nothing is done to ensure it never happens again. This is likely due to the second overused excuse.

"I wasn't employed in that capacity at the time so I didn't know and shouldn't have known that the problem existed." This is another lame excuse wherein the person on the hot seat not only absolves him/herself of any past responsibility but also any future person guilty of the same shortcomings. By the time the issue comes to light, there will be a new person in that position who'll claim the same thing.

 Of course, the person who is actually in the position of responsibility and accountability at the time of the "incident" will be shuffled into a similar but different position mostly so they can claim that they're no longer responsibility for such matters.

Does all of this sound confusing? I think it's confusing by design. Just think of it as one big shell game where nobody wins except the shells.




From ClimateGate.
Cross-posted at WOMBAT's Blog.

An Ayn Rand Revival?

I personally know a few hipster poseurs who think Ayn Rand is "the greatest". They're not teenagers. They're not idealists. I imagine I'd be a fan of hers too... if I read. Nevertheless, I found Cathy Young's analysis of Ms. Rand's work to be interesting because I think that while she criticizes Ms. Rand for being overly capitalistic and stark and lacking in compassion and humanity, Ms. Young takes an ironically opposite stance.

Clearly, Ms. Young is writing to her audience and I'm sure they appreciate her left-wing argument. I've always contended that extremists on either side of the argument are not the truth but are a great conduit to the truth. Somewhere between the two extremes lies the truth. I think this article helps elucidate the truth quite well for any reader who understands Ms. Rand's work.

Ayn Rand, the controversial Russian-born American writer, would have turned 105 years old on February 2. This anniversary takes place amidst a Rand mini-revival, sparked by the Obama Administrations push to expand government and resulting fears of socialism on the march. There has been a spike in sales of Rand's books, particularly Atlas Shrugged, the 1957 novel depicting a quasi-totalitarian future America in which the best, the brightest and the most productive go on strike in protest.

Some bloggers have bandied about the idea of such a strike under Obama going Galt, after John Galt, the leader of the revolt in the novel. Rand has recently appeared on the cover of Reason, the libertarian monthly (where I am a contributing editor) and of GQ where she was the target of a profane, vitriolic rant.

Who is Ayn Rand, and what does her renewed popularity mean? A refugee from Soviet Russia who fled Communist dictatorship in the 1920s, Rand called herself a radical for capitalism rather than a conservative. Her vision, articulated in several novels and later in nonfiction essays as the philosophy of Objectivism, earned her a sometimes cult-like following in her lifetime and beyond it.

More at RealClearPolitics via Instapundit.

Cross-posted at WOMBAT's Blog

Such a crying shame

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.

Good riddance.  I thought we'd NEVER get rid of the braying jackass.

And What About the Pope?

Surface Irritation

And we all thought he was a lib...

The great global warming collapse

Remember all the gullible libs idiots who took pics like this as proof of global warming?  They were all fakes /hoaxes... read more if you don't believe me.  Once they were proven to be hoaxes, remember how the media jumped ALL OVER IT and exposed the shysters?  No?  I don't either.

Excerpts from this article at theglobeandmail: (Bold is mine)

And now, the science scandals just keep on coming. First there was the vast cache of e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia, home of a crucial research unit responsible for collecting temperature data. Although not fatal to the science, they revealed a snakepit of scheming to keep contradictory research from being published, make imperfect data look better, and withhold information from unfriendly third parties. If science is supposed to be open and transparent, these guys acted as if they had a lot to hide.

Despite widespread efforts to play down the Climategate e-mails, they were very damaging. An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian – among the most aggressive advocates for action on climate change – has found that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed, and that documents relating to them could not be produced.

Meantime, the IPCC – the body widely regarded, until now, as the ultimate authority on climate science – is looking worse and worse. After it was forced to retract its claim about melting glaciers, Mr. Pachauri dismissed the error as a one-off. But other IPCC claims have turned out to be just as groundless.

For example, it warned that large tracts of the Amazon rain forest might be wiped out by global warming because they are extremely susceptible to even modest decreases in rainfall. The sole source for that claim, reports The Sunday Times of London, was a magazine article written by a pair of climate activists, one of whom worked for the WWF. One scientist contacted by the Times, a specialist in tropical forest ecology, called the article “a mess.”

Worse still, the Times has discovered that Mr. Pachauri's own Energy and Resources Unit, based in New Delhi, has collected millions in grants to study the effects of glacial melting – all on the strength of that bogus glacier claim, which happens to have been endorsed by the same scientist who now runs the unit that got the money. Even so, the IPCC chief is hanging tough. He insists the attacks on him are being orchestrated by companies facing lower profits. More here:

Ok, now what would an honest politician do with these facts? Let's say I'm a politician that used to support the global warming agenda. I think right about now I'd be coming out saying "wait a minute ... some HUGE problems have appeared ... I'm going to reexamine my position on this ... it appears we may have wasted untold BILLIONS of dollars."

Instead, what do you think will happen. Let me tell you what will happen ... I saw it in the 70's. They'll all stand around with big-toe-in-the-sand for a while and nobody will say SHIT. The media will allow the whole thing to quietly vanish and in another 20 years or so, they'll try it again ... only THIS TIME ... the science will really REALLY be settled. No ... REALLY!! PLEASE LET US TAX THE EVER-LOVING-SHIT OUT OF YOU ... PLEEEEEEASE!!!

Hey, have you heard anything about the polar ice caps melting lately? Remember when they were all certain that soon the poles would be without ice?  THEY WERE WRONG!  Has anyone stepped up to the plate and admitted it?  Anyone taking responsibility?  *Looking around*  "Anyone?  Anyone?  No?  Shocker.  I think it would take a real shitstain not to admit they were wrong, don't you?