Govt health care kills another

  As if it isn't depressing enough knowing the Rand Paul spectacle dominated the news while the House passed funding for this year's Obamacare and contraception mandate, here's yet another report of a completely misdiagnosed government sponsored health care debacle.
  Over at the Daily Mail, we learn the story of a highly educated young woman who was "diagnosed" by three physicians with "anxiety" only to discover, far too late, that she had cancer spread throughout her body. At 37 years old, she died, knowing that her government doctors were not interested in linking her symptoms to disease rather than psychological issues. 
  We can already see this kind of thing being rolled out here in the States, where government entities are issuing any number of suggestions (regulations to come) poo-pooing the use of diagnostic tests traditionally used for cancer screenings. 
  As if government does anything well other than the military, we can look forward to more of this neglect considering that doctors are already in short supply and some critics are naggling for, yes, more government funding.
  What this means is that we as patients will have to become more vigilant, more proactive and louder (if not belligerent) with regard to our own health care.

Elements of peaceful co-existence

  Sold on Ebay (H/T Legal Insurrection) 
  Colt Glock Beretta SA Winchester SW Mossberg Gun Firearm Bumper Sticker

Are all Colorado Democrats "victims" of poor judgment and insensitivity?

  This is what we've come to.
  Colorado is in the throes of decision making about whether to take firearms away from law abiding persons so their Democrat legislators have been busy proposing hideous bills, listening to testimony of rape victims and handing out very sage advice on how to prevent being raped without needing a firearm.
  Y'all'll be glad to know that crooks with criminals records are now proposing laws to take away all firearms. 
  Needless to say, this particular crook is a Democrat. Her mug shot was posted online, along with Red State's rundown on her record for trying snatchweapons.

  Ms. Fields has put on a few pounds since her mug shot though you can see her dramatic press photos here now, surrounded by adoring admirers of all colors. You know, the usual victims, hooligans and aggrieved. Her url reads: Rhonda Fields: Justice, Fairness and Community. 

  Presumably that means her theft will now be governmentally sponsored--labeled justice and fairness--rather than, say, shoplifting in a common department store and larceny. Well, now her larceny is on a larger scale, wouldn't you say.

  The Denver Post has more information on other criminals who run the state.

  What is even more shocking are the ridiculous comments made by old Rhonda's compatriot Senator Evie Hudak, who condescendingly informed a rape victim who had been 50 feet from a "safe zone" and had left her CCW in the car as required by law that the victim really wasn't responsible enough to carry a firearm, and that she would probably have lost it to her rapist anyway.

  "Statistics" aren't on your side, Ms. Hudak explained to the rape victim while she cruised her computer screen, because the rapist would probably have used your weapon against you. How Ms. Hudak deduced this is unknown, other than she produced some study that cleverly verified her contention.

  If you haven't seen the unbelievably arrogant and heartless comment, (you know, like you've been in Florida or something) here's the video:

  What's so ridiculous is that Ms. Collins's attacker already had a gun which he could have used if he wanted to so why Ms. Collins having a weapon to blow a hole in his chest to stop him is unexplained by Ms. Hudak, who again looks mysteriously better in her press photo than in reality.
  But dumb Colorado Democrats are not limited to females; let's be fair!
  Colorado Democrat Joe Salazar has already said this to the rape victim (Investor's Business Daily):

"It's why we have call boxes; it's why we have safe zones; it's why we have the whistles; because you just don't know who you're gonna be shooting at." 

Women, Salazar opined, "couldn't possibly know if they are in danger. And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop ... pop around at somebody."

  A whistle, a call box, a safe zone--all these will prevent a rape! You're so stupid to think you need a gun! 
  And Colorado Democrat Ulibarri claimed a ballpoint pen should be sufficient to repel an attacker (why not a box cutter?).
 The precious advice to prevent rape isn't limited to stupid legislators of all genders; here's what a Colorado college put on their website in suggestions to prevent rape:

The list of 10 tips by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs was billed as "last resort" options to deter a sexual assault.
"Tell your attacker that you have a disease or are menstruating," read one tip.
"Vomiting or urinating may also convince the attacker to leave you alone," read another.

  So let's just run down the list of stupid reasons offered by stupid Colorado Democrats to prevent rape:

• Go to a safe zone. Apparently the minute you stand across the line presto the rapist won't follow.
• Use the common ordinary ballpoint pen stuffed in the 4th pocket of your backpack inside 2 zippers to stab him in his carotid artery. Maybe he'll bleed to death before he can do anything.
• Use "the whistle." Maybe like dogs it'll hurt his ears and he'll run away.
• Use a call box because most women don't have cell phones right.
• Claim you have aids. Presumably the flu won't do it.
• Claim you are menstruating. All males--and even some females--are put off by the "ick" factor of "Emily the visitor."
• Stick your finger down your throat and try to throw up on the guy. Rapists are usually grossed out by unpleasant stuff like vomit.
• Pee all over the guy, which assumes he's close enough to wet him down good, which kinda sounds like it's too late, if you know what I mean.
• Statistically you've been raped anyway so just give up because you too are stupid.

  Maybe you should become a Colorado Democrat. 
  Or maybe you'll piss the rapist off so much he'll kill ya, screaming because you peed and threw up on him.
UPDATE: OTOH, maybe all Democrats are stupid. Watch this Democrat "strategist" preach that no one should be telling women what to do, like carry a gun or pee on their attacker. 
   Instead the ideal solution is to.....tell men not to rape! Cuz if they knew that it was wrong, they wouldn't do it. So the short of it is that rape is apparently not an illegal act of violence but an act of intellectual and moral choice that can be remedied if only they had known it was wrong. 
  But then we've always known that it was ok to tell men what to do but not women cuz they're, you know, smarter than men.

Taking honest citizens' guns hurts minorities

  Leftist policies hurt the poor most, something many people refuse to see. Lulling people into accepting minimal government money, just enough to keep them wanting more but away from work is a sort of slavery. 
  And it's a fraud to think that snatching the guns of honest citizens so they'll be unarmed in front of criminals (who will surely never relinquish their weapons) will do anything except benefit the criminals.
  Thus Star Parker of CURE has produced this video and it's a doozy. Controversial? Only because it tells the truth. 

R.I.H. Hugo!

Rot in Hell, Hugo. 
So long.
Sayonara, baby.
Say hellloooo to Satan.

Piers Morgan: portrait of Leftist Hollywood

  Haw, haw, haw.

  Piers Morgan is also doing the Drama Queen act, though not quite as successfully as Drama Queen Obama, claiming that he gets death threats for his histrionic stance on gun control.
  The British tabloids are often very funny and interesting to read; in general, the Daily Mail often has more specific information about incidents in America than American papers. 
  The Mirror, otoh, has boldly declared its fealty to one Piers Morgan, labeling him "brave" for his constant badgering of American gun owners. 
  Bragging about his burgeoning "movie" career (appearing as himself), Morgan explains that "his" movies are blockbusters, Oscar material, even though all the director does is run past footage or have Morgan sit at a desk and question people. Like, wow. What talent. How does he do it?
  Morgan justifies his extreme gun control stance with the usual "if we can save just one life" meme, a meme that is tired and illogical, since just about any government regulation can be justified by the "one life" meme. 
  I mean, seriously. People choke on steak at dinner.
  The Mirror's description of Morgan as "brave" includes a claim that he has "millions" of fans in the U.S.:

Piers Morgan finds himself adored by millions of fans of his CNN show and simultaneously loathed by millions of others for his outspoken views on gun control. 

The presenter’s attack on the US second amendment – the right to bear arms – after the Sandy Hook primary school massacre has even led to him getting death threats. 

But it has also won him an army supporters in Tinseltown.

And it's oh-so-important to have Tinseltown admirers these days, isn't it. Morgan claims that Kiefer Sutherland of 24 says this about Morgan:

"What you’re doing is one of the bravest things I’ve ever seen on television.’

  Well, THAT's a disappointment. Jack Bauer thinks the highly paid Morgan screeching about gun control night after night, insulting guests with whom he disagrees is brave?
  But the Mirror might want to rethink the idea that Morgan has "millions" of fans, considering the latest numbers. According to Deadline:

For the second day in a row, CNN’sPiers Morgan Tonight sank to a yearly (2013) low in the prime 25-54 demographic with just 87,000 viewers. PMT is down 27% in total viewers, according to Nielsen data, and down 38% in the demo from its debut on January 17, 2011. Additionally, last night PMT had the lowest demo in its time slot, even beaten by sister network HLN’s Dr. Drew with 208,000 viewers in the demo.

  "Thousands" actually watch him. Yes, that's right. Headline News beat Piers Morgan. 
  Can QVC be far behind?
  Ah, we can hope one pompous television bloviator can't be saved.
  Yes, the import Piers Morgan is a perfect portrait of the Hollywood Leftist. Arrogant, overpaid, pompous, delusional, self-righteous and hard left wing.

Drama queen Obama's media begins to worry

  The antics of the last week have been almost--unbelievable.
  A child bit his pop tart into a "gun" shape and was reprimanded.
  Another child shows a picture of his BB gun to his friend and the school threatens action and questions the boy's mental state.
  A teacher writes threatening notes on the chalkboard and the threats are brushed away.
  Michelle Obama recommends that dogs get a diet because apparently American dogs also are too fat.
  Thousands of new federal regulations have been proposed for school lunches, costing thousands of dollars and hours by cash strapped school districts.
  And Obama's been pretty much off the rails, screeching and drama-queening the sequester "cuts" which are just cuts in the federal raise next year. Apparently he didn't think Republicans would hold to their convictions and admittedly we all thought they'd fold too, but the week didn't end quite the way he thought it would so HE had to cave.
  What's been most surprising is that, though much of the main stream media has filleted Bob Woodward for his criticism of Obama, others have actually come forward to verify Woodward's accounts of bullying.
  The worst account was in the New York Post today:

Finally, this week, reporters are pushing back. Even Jonathan Alter — who frequently appears on the Obama-friendly MSNBC — came forward to say he, too, had been treated horribly by the administration for writing something they didn’t like. 

“There is a kind of threatening tone that, from time to time — not all the time — comes out of these guys,” Alter said this week. During the 2008 campaign swing through Berlin, Alter said that future White House press secretary Robert Gibbs disinvited him from a dinner between Obama and the press corps over it. 

“I was told ‘Don’t come,’ in a fairly abusive e-mail,” he said. “[It] made what Gene Sperling wrote [to Woodward] look like patty-cake. I had a young reporter asking tough, important questions of an Obama Cabinet secretary,” says one DC veteran. “She was doing her job, and they were trying to bully her. In an e-mail, they called her the vilest names — bitch, c--t, a--hole.” He complained and was told the matter would be investigated: “They were hemming and hawing, saying, ‘We’ll look into it.’ Nothing happened.”

  Now that the doors have been opened, perhaps more "journalists" will see fit to tell the truth about Obama.
  One gets the feeling that Obama's being exposed every day for what and who he really is, now that the press has had him safely reelected.
  Obama's Marxist influences and background are making them nervous, considering that a legitimate press is the first to go when Marxists get their way with the people. After voluntarily succumbing to the wiles of Dear Leader,  perhaps now they'll begin to worry.

Petulant POUTUS is losing ground

  If you've heard much that's coming out of the office of the POTUS and the VPOTUS lately, you have to admit the dialog is becoming increasingly pathological. 
  Take Joe Biden. (Please.) 
  Initially he said that it was a good thing to shoot a 2 shot rifle into the air twice to scare away marauders, even though you'd then be out of shot and it's, um, illegal to do such a thing in Maryland and elsewhere.
  Besides. You can kill somebody (anybody?) doing that.
  Biden doubled down on his bad advice about guns, claiming that a good thing to do would be to just shoot through the door if you feel threatened, something one guy did and was promptly arrested. In the words of the immortal Biden:

Well, the way in which we measure it is—I think most scholars would say—is that as long as you have a weapon sufficient to be able to provide your self-defense. I did one of these town-hall meetings on the Internet and one guy said, “Well, what happens when the end days come? What happens when there’s the earthquake? I live in California, and I have to protect myself.” 

I said, “Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.” Most people can handle a shotgun a hell of a lot better than they can a semiautomatic weapon in terms of both their aim and in terms of their ability to deter people coming. We can argue whether that’s true or not, but it is no argument that, for example, a shotgun could do the same job of protecting you. Now, granted, you can come back and say, “Well, a machine gun could do a better job of protecting me.” No one’s arguing we should make machine guns legal.

  Then today Obama was off the deep end; he claims Republicans want to "paint horns on my head," and he simply couldn't work with them in the 7 minutes he gave them today to discuss the sequester because they were so unreasonable.
  How dare anyone cut anything, Obama opined, when government is already cut to the bone. 
  Presumably this comment was inspired by the fact that federal employees are mad at him because of the sequester and has nothing to do with the big parties the GAO reported federal workers like to throw for themselves or stuff like the $300 million the feds blew on signs advertising the stimulus projects.
  In fact, Obama felt so picked on today (and, after all, we all know Republicans are bullies, regardless the government programs telling them not to be) that he mewled that he isn't a "dictator," and cannot just do things without the Congress helping him out. 
  He also doesn't want the responsibility, offered him by Congress, of having to choose what cuts to make because where, oh, where would he start? The crippled kid of the poor kid?
   And over at NRO we are reminded that though Obama lamented today that he is not a dictator, POUTUS has also complained he is not president of China or Emperor, even though he acts like it and seems to think so.

King: “My cabinet has been working very hard on trying to get it done, but ultimately, I think somebody said the other day, I am president, I am not king,” Obama told Univision in October 2010, when asked why he had yet to achieve comprehensive immigration reform. “I can’t do these things just by myself.” He reiterated that sentiment in a February 2013 interview with Telemundo. “I’m not a king,” he said. 

President of China: “Mr. Obama has told people that it would be so much easier to be the president of China,” the New York Times reported in March 2011. 

Emperor of the United States: “This is something I’ve struggled with throughout my presidency,” Obama said during a Google hangout event in February. “The problem is that I’m the president of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed.”

  I think we can all (well, Tea Partiers, anyway) that these guys are off the deep end. 

Gosh, those bangs are long

I just need to say it again. The bangs are TOO long.
Who could disagree?

A threat from the office of the POTUS? You bet it's important

  By now, informed citizens will have heard about the Woodward/Sperling controversy. Woodward felt threatened by a comment White Administration aide Eugene Sperling made to the effect of "you'll regret this." 
  The press has jumped on the bandwagon, saying Woodward has blown it out of proportion; Rush said the comment sounded innocuous but he had to believe it since that is the way Woodward took it.
   I guess I would say this.
  This is the office of the President of the United States.
  The POTUS has--apparently far more than any other presidency--access to the IRS, the FBI, Homeland Security, the DHS....and on and on and on.
  Including drones.
  Do we not think these offices wield an incredible amount of influence on an average citizen's life?
  Has the Office of the Presidency no dignity, no decorum anymore, even publicly?
  Others have come forward to complain of White House bullying. Add to it Pfouffle's derisive tweet and you have a considerable case that the White House certainly is threatening a citizen whose job it is to keep an eye on the government.
  But that would be nothing new for this POTUS, would it.
  The point is that a perceived threat from the office of the POTUS has significant repercussions.
  We might recall what the Watergate "criminals" went to jail for and wonder.
  Isn't this worse?

Woman: They'll just have to kill me

  I love this. LOVE this because it reveals what idiots these peaceniks are. They'd rather be murdered by a depraved individual than defend themselves, THEY SAY.
  A few dozen people show up in Atlanta to "mourn" the shooting of Trayvon Martin and protest gun violence. 
  Their solution is to get rid of "gun vi-lence [sic]." Presumably this is by depriving honest citizens from owning guns to defend themselves, because as you can hear, this woman implies she would not want ONE CHILD to die because she owned a gun. No, she'd rather DIE (be murdered by) that child.

Woman:Sef defense is not an option. It is not an option.
Reporter:But what if someone's trying to kill you?
Woman:They'll just have to kill me, Christopher.

  Ok, no.
  They're not killing me, if I have a choice.
  I wonder if this woman has ever heard of the Darwin Awards.
  Because both she and her attacker, IMHO, would be great candidates.
CBS Atlanta 46

It's the end of the world! Oh, wait. No, it's not.

  So Phil Gramm helped write the sequestration bill; he says that Obama can make the cuts where they need to be rather than stuff like, you know, letting illegal alien criminals loose, claiming that it was because of the severe cuts in the sequester and that there was absolutely no other place they could possibly find to cut.
  Finally transparency from this administration!
  I don't know about you, but when I heard the press dutifully pronounce that as a result of sequester cuts (which hadn't happened yet) the government (ICE) was having to let criminals go in anticipation of a 2% cut, I smelled a rat immediately.
  More intimidation from the Chicago White House, as Bob Woodward has learned to appreciate.
  Of course, the White House claims this was all done independent of the White House; some poor schlub in ICE retired to take the fall.
  Let's remind ourselves that this is a 2.4% cut over the next year's increase of growth. 
  I mean, really? A 45 billion cut for this year of an increase?
  Give me a break. 
  Even in the Bush days when only 850 billion dollars was in circulation--before Obama's dude in the Fed printed trillions of additional dollars--45 billion was chump change.
  This is all political theater, as the informed voter knows.
  Today (in case you haven't caught up with the out-of-mainstream-news) Obama--the liar--is backtracking, saying that most people won't notice when the sequester comes and goes Friday.
  Why?
  Well, of course, Obama realizes he's losing the whole sequester end of the world rhetoric he's been employing.
  There's nowhere else to cut! We're cut to the bone!
  Do the voters really believe that?

  Now POTUS has switched tactics, claiming that most people won't notice b-b-but the sequester is "gonna be a big hit on the economy."
  Well, you know what THAT's about.
  The economy is still tanking and Obama needs a new scapegoat.
   Watch. It's going to be, "Well, if the Republicans hadn't messed the economy up by not negotiating to raise taxes we'd be doing great."
  This will be from a president who has submitted budgets so ridiculous that even his own party won't vote for them.
  The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
  Wait.
  The sky is not falling! The sky is not falling!
  But you just wait. The Prince will move on to a new crisis tomorrow.
  And it's great that Obama's finally scheduled a meeting the day after the crisis, eh? 
  Now that's real leadership!

Is the tide beginning to turn against Obama?

  The cheery Red Eye Radio guys are really the best on the radio. This morning's discussion was about Harry Alford's very public rejection of Obama as a "leader" as shown in the post below.
  Bob Woodward said that the behavior Obama is exhibiting is "madness" regarding the claims that Republicans are responsible for the sequester that Obama proposed.
  Earlier Brezinsky had argued with Scarborough that it was "silly" to argue over whether Obama lied about the sequester, just as Howard Kurtz had said it was "pointless" to argue over whether the POTUS was a liar.
  Scarborough and Brezinsky agreed that the sequester needed to be solved but Brezinsky claimed that Republicans were at fault because they wouldn't meet with the POTUS (???).  Eric and Gary also played audio of conservative RINO token moderate Democrat Joe Scarborough on MSNBC and the ultra condescending Leftist Mika Brezinski's conversation in which they both seemed to agree that Obama had some fault in responsibility for the sequester.
  Newsbusters:

BOB WOODWARD, WASHINGTON POST: I'm not sure the White House understands exactly what happened in all of these negotiations at the end of 2011 with the sequester and the super committee and God knows what because they were really on the sidelines. But I think it's possible to take one example here where President Obama came out and acknowledged that we are not sending the aircraft carrier Truman to the Persian Gulf because of this budget agreement. 

JOE SCARBOROUGH, CO-HOST: Right.

WOODWARD: Joe, I mean, this will resonate with you, I think. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, “Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document,” or George W. Bush saying, “You know, I'm not going to invade Iraq because I can't get the aircraft carriers I need,” or even Bill Clinton saying, “You know, I'm not going to attack Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters” as he did when Clinton was president “because of some budget document?” Under the Constitution, the president is Commander-in-Chief and employs the force. And so we now have the president going out because of this piece of paper and this agreement, “I can't do what I need to do to protect the country.” That's a kind of madness that I haven't seen in a long time. 

  What's becoming increasingly apparent is that patience is running out with Obama's petulant behavior. 
 And, as Harold Alford says, Obama is the one causing pain and certainly not sympathetic to it.
  RER guys said that they believed that Obama's choice to take off to go golfing with Tiger Woods in the middle of the sequester drama, they believe, has set off the Leftists because they feel betrayed by the noble Leftist ideals they all hold dear.
  You know. Ideals like creating a Department of Peace.
  See, there's no evil in the world. There's no one determined to kill Americans simply because they have such hate in their hearts for Christians, Jews and free people.
  No, there's no one out there like that. We're the ones at fault. That's why we need to have a Department of Peace.
  So we can study how to change our behavior to make everyone like us.

Black Chamber of Commerce president speaks out against Obama

  Harry Alford is the Black Chamber of Commerce president; his remarks in recent days have been remarkable, if not breathtaking.
  Alford laments the fact that he voted for Obama because he's Black, claims Obama is virtually a "communist" and says Obama has never run anything and doesn't understand the pain of the American people and, in fact, is responsible for causing much of the pain of the American people.
  The complete transcript of the Hannity interview is here. Here's video of another interview.

Showdown on Hannity

  When even the liberal media notices how offensive certain Democrat parties are, you know you have a problem. Last night on Hannity, the Congress's only Muslim threw a hissy fit--appearing petulant and demanding not unlike another Democrat leader--so much so that even Howard Kurtz wonders why he's so badly behaved.

Campaigner in Chief

I think it is about time someone tap the President on the shoulder, lean over and whisper in his ear, and tell him that the 2012 campaign is over...and he won.

The President and his minions have been telling the American people daily that unless the Republicans concede to raising additional taxes on the rich and corporations to prevent the implementation of President Obama's sequestration plan, the US is headed for the financial abyss.

The President has travelled around the country telling everyone how bad it's going to be.

Since the State of the Union, the President has climbed about Marine One, hopped to Andrews Air Force Base, and flown on Air Force One to numerous cities to appear in campaign-style photo op's regarding the sequester.

The President has visited Palm Beach; Florida; Asheville, North Carolina; Decatur,Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; and most recently Newport News, Virginia explaining why sequester is bad for the country.

He has met with the National Governors Conference; the Democratic Governors Association; Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; Italian President Giorgio Napolitano; recorded radio interviews with Al Sharpton, Joe Madison and Yolanda Adams; and found time to participate in a Facebook Town Hall meeting on gun violence sponsored by Parents Magazine.

But it doesn't appear he has found time to meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid about ways to cut the 16 trillion dollar deficit. It also doesn't appear he's picked up the phone to House Speaker John Boehner in an attempt to come to an agreement that would prevent sequester.

I guess he'd prefer walking across the South lawn to his private helicopter to take him to his private jet rather than catch a cab to Capitol Hill.

The President has told the American people how their lives will be affected by sequester. He tells of layoffs of teachers, firemen, and police officers. He warns of a decimated military. He says sir travel will be delayed  because of the layoffs of air traffic controllers. The Administration has said there will be cuts in Head Start programs and just Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that numerous illegal aliens who are being held in detention centers may be released because she didn't have funds to keep them incarcerated.

Yes, the President has spent a good deal of time warning of what's to come.

Unfortunately, he hasn't spend any significant time trying to fix the problem.

It appears he is still stuck in campaign mode. He is more comfortable appearing in front of a crowd of people blaming others for government's shortcomings rather than roll up his sleeves and do the work.

The National Taxpayers Union has said the cost of operating Air Force One is roughly $181,760.00 per HOUR. This doesn't include any support aircraft, Secret Service personnel and local law enforcement costs associated with a Presidential trip. It is reported the cost of a Presidential jaunt can exceed one million dollars per day.

So maybe it's about time the American people tell President Obama:

1.That his job is in Washington, DC.

2. Campaign-style photo-ops aren't leadership.

3, The sequester that he is so concerned about was his idea.

4. It's time he do the job he has been campaigning for and was elected to do.

5. Hang up the keys to Air Force One and get to work.

There comes a point in time when the campaigning stops and the work begins. Someone needs to tell this President that time is now.

Michelle's $9000 dress

  It's good to know Tea Partiers aren't the only ones sick of Michelle Obama, who crashed the Oscars Sunday (apparently). 
  She of the 99% wore a $9,000 dress to "present" the award.

  I gotta say, the bangs suck. 

  The huge glossy lips are weird and the bangs are way, way too long. You can hardly see her eyes. I take my dog to the vet when her bangs get that long (not that I'm comparing FLOTUS to my dog. My dog's a great dog.).

  People as backdrop. Yeah. That's the Obama way. Especially great when the people are military. Like, yeah. 

  Why not have the unacknowledged formally dressed military buttress your appearance when you're presenting an Academy Award, after all. 

  That makes a LOT of sense!

  I'm trying to imagine an instance where I in any instance could justify spending at least $9000 on one outfit that people would see for 5 minutes.

  But I guess when you're one of the 99% 1% chosen elite--the anointed aka Democrat--you can do anything you want without the press going after you.

  I forgot to mention that she says Hollywood is doing "vitally important work," unlike her husband's lack of interest in the 4 murders of Americans in Benghazi while he went to bed.

Gun control IS racist

  It's been long suspected that gun control laws are racist.  
  Take a look at the much ballyhooed Planned Parenthood whose original goal was limiting the Black population; that it certainly has done with millions and millions of Black babies aborted every year, so much so that the Black population is no longer the largest minority in this country.
  The concern appears to have occurred to a number of people that gun control laws are aimed at the poorest minority communities in the country. The major liberal cities have the most stringent gun control laws, the most violence, and the most defenseless law abiding citizens who have no way to defeat the most horrible of criminals.
  The general populace is being subjected to various ploys to line up public sympathy against gun ownership and, as usual, this administration chooses to legislate and activate by sob story with cadres of miserable victims lined up behind them as they agitate to pass new [fill in the blank] law/regulation.
  Now that Black ministers have stated on record opposing more gun control as "people control" (of Blacks) rather than gun control, it will be interesting to see if this administration bothers to respond to the anger they have engendered by advocating that the Second Amendment be ignored.
  And now that the NRA has exposed the DOJ memo detailing a path toward registration and eventual confiscation of all firearms, the heat is turned up by the thousands who turned out for pro gun rallies across the country Saturday, even while Obama's people resorted to paying people $11 an hour and busing them in to show up at gun control rallies because so few are interested. (Of course, this is nothing new for the unions. They've been busing people in for years.)
  Yet Joe Biden had the temerity to claim that most Americans want gun control and that no one, NO ONE is concerned that their Constitutional rights are being infringed.

  Huh.
  Funny, but we seemed to have the impression that Biden, as usual, as not only wrong but spectacularly and doofusly wrong.
  Here's a transcript of Biden's speech at Western Connecticut University:

We should all know the American people are with us. We all should know there's a moral price to be paid for inaction.....The organized opposition...throws up question after question not because they're looking for answers, not because they're driven by facts, not because they're looking for a way forward but because they're looking for roadblocks. Every one of these chats I do on the internet....on Facebook...it's amazing some of the questions I get...they say, "All you're gonna do is....deny a lady abiding citizen their rights..it's not true! They say assault weapons like AR 15s are needed for self protection and recreation. They are not! (applause) There's [sic] plenty of ways to protect yourself!....They say it isn't about guns. They're wrong! It is about guns! [applause] Let me say at the outset to all the press: NO LAW ABIDING CITIZEN OF THe United States of America has ANY FEAR THAT THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WILL BE INFRINGED IN ANY WAY! [applause] NONE! ZERO!

  I dunno. What do you think? 

Wah! We need more nannies to tell us what to do!

  Those of us out here in the red states look at Nanny Bloomberg as an oddity, someone who has vastly overstepped his boundaries as a leader. 
  The soda ban takes effect in NYC in March; shop owners are just now beginning to see the web of regulations that determine how they get to run their businesses.
  From the New York Post, we learn that pizza shops are not allowed to deliver 2 liter bottles with pizzas nor are bar owners allowed to serve caloric mixers no matter how much alcohol is delivered to the table:

The carafes in which mixers are typically served hold 32 ounces, and the most common mixers — sodas, cranberry juice and tonic water — will be limited. Only water and 100 percent juice will be unlimited. 

“Oh, my God. Seriously?” said Lamia Sunti, owner of the swanky West Village club Le Souk Harem. “It’s not like one person is going to be drinking the whole carafe. It’s silly.”

  What gripes me most is a few people in positions of power get to determine the course of our lives: the POTUS, Democrats, the Supreme Court and locally, a do gooder who does not apply the same rules to his own life, gets squired around town by a driver and has his own gym, trainer and cook.
  In a nation of over 300 million people, under a thousand people in federal government in DC get to tell us how we lives our lives; they decide to ruin the health care system, making it political, and are still acting like it's an improvement. 
  People have already figured ways around having to pay for health care until and unless they need it. There aren't enough doctors for the new patients, the government is trolling for Mexicans to come to this country and get on our welfare and health care provisions, companies are dropping part time employees' hours or their employment altogether and by the end of the year they will have dropped health insurance for all employees in favor of the government exchanges. Health care costs have risen and will rise more and there's no money for the enormous bills that will accompany health care.
  Oh, well.
  Those politicians sure know best.
  And a community organizer is doing what he does best: causing dissension, pitting people against "the system" and setting his own schedule by living off the largesse of the government.
UPDATE: Oh, and let's DEFINITELY make the whole state give up their sodas!

Toledo 11th most miserable city

  Mais oui! But of course! Zees is why zee Tea Partiers have move to cities outside zee Toledo area.
  Forbes outs Toledo here.
  But what do all these miserable cities have in common?
  Why, they're run by Democrats, of course! I admit I like Mayors Bell and Bing of Toledo and Detroit respectively, but it's not just the mayors who run the cities who are entrenched liberals.
  It's the city councils and the people who vote them in who are so dedicated to the union mentality of overcommitment to government workers, plush benefits, nanny state regulations and lots of broken city streets and vast cracked concreted ghostly landscapes replete with tumbleweed and broken bottles reminiscent of the businesses who formerly thrived there.
  Toledo has possibilities; it's a great location, it could have an attractive waterfront and the people in Northwest Ohio are generally friendly. But the city itself cannot seem to sustain any kind of business. The quality of student in the schools is abysmal and few people actually pay property taxes because of the poverty level. Dependency on government? You bet.
  And that's the core of the problem, is it not.