Newsbusters-In their watchdog role of keeping the public informed, the New York Times has over the years disclosed government secrets regarding anti-terrorism tactics, overseas prisons, interrogation tactics, and military tactics, that critics contend have harmed the effectiveness of the programs and put America and our military at greater risk.

In fact, in 2008, the Times even published the name of an interrogator who got Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to talk, against the wishes of the interrogator’s lawyer and the CIA. The interrogator and his family fear for their lives, but that’s okay, because the public has a right to know.

Debbie Schlussel-Whenever the New York Times has a scoop that, if published, will jeopardize America’s national security and the safety and lives of countless Americans, it errs on the side of . . . spilling the beans. Then, the “newspaper of record” spews some boilerplate about “the public’s right to know,” “informing public debate,” blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda.

But, when it comes to the safety of one of its own–a New York Times reporter–well, then, mum’s the word

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It seems Washington has turned into one huge Ponzi scheme and the people are the victims while the politicians and their contacts get rich…

(suntimes) As U.S. stock markets plummeted last September, the Senate’s No. 2 Democrat, Dick Durbin, sold more than $115,000 worth of stocks and mutual-fund shares and used much of the money to invest in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

The Illinois senator’s 2008 financial disclosure statement shows he sold mutual-fund shares worth $42,696 on Sept. 19, the day after then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged congressional leaders in a closed meeting to craft legislation to help financially troubled banks. The same day, he bought $43,562 worth of Berkshire Hathaway’s Class B stock, the disclosure shows.

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Talk about a hand job

It took a nearly severed tongue for the pitchman to realize prostitutes are bad news. read

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Tyler Weinman appeared to be a well-adjusted teenager

A teenager recently arrested on marijuana charges is accused of torturing, mutilating and killing almost 20 cats in South Miami-Dade in less than two months. Read

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Obama roadmap hero

Doug Ross has a great example of the Alinsky tactics used by the ex Community Organizer. Check out how Obama uses the “there are those” straw–

On Middle East Peace (06-04-2009): “…There are those –

On Intolerance (06-03-2009): “…to this day, there are those--

On Terrorism (05-21-2009): “On one side of the spectrum, there are those—

On Science (04-27-2009): “…there are those –

On Cap-and-Trade Taxes (04-14-2009): “There are those—

On Turkey (04-06-2009): “…I know there are those –

On the G8 and Financial Regulation (04-01-2009): “…this notion that somehow there are those –

On the Iranian People (03-20-2009): “…There are those –

On Taxes (3-18-2009): “. there are those —

On the Stimulus Package (03-06-2009): “...There are those —

On Health Care (03-05-2009): “…today, there are those —

On Taxes (09-26-2008): “…we all would love to lower taxes on everybody. But here’s the problem: If we are giving them to oil companies, then that means that there are those who are not going to be getting them…”

On Abortion: (09-01-2008): “…Choice is about how we lead our lives. It’s about our families and about our communities. It’s about our daughters and whether they’re going to have the same opportunities as our sons. There are those who want us to believe otherwise…”

On Statism (08-28-2008): “…I know there are those —

On Accepting the Nomination (06-03-2008): “…There are those –

On Good Governance (02-18-2008): “…There are those –

On Allowing Illegal Immigrants to Get In-State Tuition (DREAM Act) (01-31-2008): “…There are those –

On John Kerry’s Candidacy (07-27-2004): “… there are those –

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“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawardedly enslave themselves. A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world was not flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.” Dresden James 

(chron) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to fire the inspector general who investigates AmeriCorps and other national service programs amid a controversy between the IG and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, who is an Obama supporter and former NBA basketball star.

 The IG, Gerald Walpin, was criticized by the U.S. attorney in Sacramento for the way he handled an investigation of Johnson and his nonprofit group, St. HOPE Academy, which received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grants from the Corporation for National Community Service. The corporation runs the AmeriCorps program.

Our Evita

(Malkin) Some decisions about CNCS are being made by First Lady Michelle Obama, according to service advocates (who asked not to be named). Last week, Mrs. Obama announced that her chief of staff, Jackie Norris, would move to CNCS as a senior adviser. Officials said yesterday that Norris is scheduled to arrive on June 22.

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Who would have thought that for 20 years a large congregation of religious Marxists in Chicago would spawn the next POTUS? Remember those good old days when the Rev. Wright would express his hate towards America? Along with a great gospel chorus and a then unknown Community Organizer who would cover those big ass ears of his and claim to never having heard a word of Jew hate? 

The media seems so out of breath over the Holocaust Museum shooting. They go out of there way to point the problem at Conservatives, but they seem to overlook the little fact that Conservatives love Israel. It’s the Marxist racists like those in Obamas former congregation that cheer sermons from the pulpit of a real Jew hater.

No one in the state run media was curious about the Nazi like Anti-Semite in Chicago back in the day. Could anyone but Barack Obama surround themselves with Jew haters for 20 years and have nothing stick? 

(ABC) A reporter from the Daily-Press of Newport News, Virginia, caught up with President Obama’s former mentor and pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, this week at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers’ Conference. Asked if he’s spoken to his former parishioner since he become President, Wright told David Squires, “them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.”

Wright said he would tell the president, if he could, to stay true to himself. “He’s gotta do what politicians do,” Wright said. “Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza, “Ethnic cleansing the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don’t want Barack talking like that because that’s anti-Israel.”

Rev. Wright also said that “the Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Darfur Review Conference, that’s talking this craziness on this trip, cause they’re Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is. “

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The “test” our super smart VP talked about during the campaign may be getting closer.  The reaction, which Biden said Americans would question has been enacted by dissing Israel. Obama is on a dangerous path with Israel who has a track record of acting when cornered…

Was there a subliminal message intended from the White House to Netanyahu in Jerusalem, who is publicly resisting attempts by Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to force Israel to stop any kind of settlement activity in occupied territories once and forever?

Whether or not it is true, it shows the mood in Israel. They feel cornered. The reactions out of Israel reflect that feeling.Netanyahu is making a speech Sunday, in part as a response to Mr. Obama’s address to the Arab world last week in Cairo.

Israel’s Channel One TV reported that Netanyahu was told Tuesday by an “American official” in Jerusalem that, “We are going to change the world. Please, don’t interfere.” The report said Netanyahu’s aides interpreted this as a “threat.”  read

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 ‘The Muslim World’

By Mark Steyn

As recently as last summer, General Motors filing for bankruptcy would have been the biggest news story of the week.  But it’s not such a very great step from the unthinkable to the inevitable, and by the time it actually happened the market barely noticed and the media were focused on the president’s “address to the Muslim world.” As it happens, these two stories are the same story: snapshots, at home and abroad, of the hyperpower in eclipse. It’s a long time since anyone touted GM as the emblematic brand of America — What’s good for GM is good for America, etc. In fact, it’s more emblematic than ever: Like General Motors, the U.S. government spends more than it makes, and has airily committed itself to ever more unsustainable levels of benefits. GM has about 95,000 workers but provides health benefits to a million people: It’s not a business enterprise, but a vast welfare plan with a tiny loss-making commercial sector. As GM goes, so goes America?

But who cares? Overseas, the coolest president in history was giving a speech. Or, as the official press release headlined it on the State Department website, “President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo.”

Let’s pause right there: It’s interesting how easily the words “the Muslim world” roll off the tongues of liberal secular progressives who’d choke on any equivalent reference to “the Christian world.” When such hyper-alert policemen of the perimeter between church and state endorse the former but not the latter, they’re implicitly acknowledging that Islam is not merely a faith but a political project, too. There is an “Organization of the Islamic Conference,” which is already the largest single voting bloc at the U.N. and is still adding new members. Imagine if someone proposed an “Organization of the Christian Conference” that would hold summits attended by prime ministers and presidents, and vote as a bloc in transnational bodies. But, of course, there is no “Christian world”: Europe is largely post-Christian and, as President Obama bizarrely asserted to a European interviewer last week, America is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” Perhaps we’re eligible for membership in the OIC. Read more

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 It is no secret that the State Dept. is chuck full of America hating career employees.. How many Hollywood biggies are treasonous?

(Gateway) Here’s the shocking part (kidding)…A Walter Myers from Ashburn, Virginia donated to the Obama Campaign this past year. UPDATE: The Castro-lover attacks Tony Blair in a 2006 article in The Telegraph, via LGF:

 A senior American official has spoken of “the myth of the special relationship” between the United States and Britain, arguing that Tony Blair got “nothing, no payback” for supporting President George W Bush in Iraq. Kendall Myers, a leading State Department adviser, suggested that Mr Blair should have been ditched by Labour but the party had lacked the “courage or audacity” to remove him. Funny, he sounds like your typical America-hating Leftist.

The 72-year-old retired State Department employee — who had enjoyed top-secret security clearance — and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, appeared in federal court Friday, charged with serving as illegal agents for Cuba for nearly 30 years and conspiring to deliver classified information to its government. They pleaded not guilty.

According to documents unsealed Friday in Washington, Myers, a former analyst on Europe for the State Department, and his bank employee wife agreed in 1979 to deliver U.S. secrets to Cuba. Federal authorities called the couple’s spying for Havana “incredibly serious.”

Investigators allege Myers — at the behest of the Cuban Intelligence Service — landed a job at the State Department, gained sensitive clearance and traveled with his wife to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and New York to meet with Cuban agents. He told an undercover FBI source he was so successful he received ”lots of medals” from the Cuban government, and that he and his wife enjoyed a rare private meeting in 1995 with Fidel Castro. read 

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Is NBC the equivalent to “State Run” media? Like Pravda NBC has turned into an appendage of the Obama administration dependent on cap and trade laws to expand their power. How can anyone trust what NBC reports if if they are spokespeople for Obama?

EXCLUSIVE: GE/NBCU TRYING TO STIFLE OTHER MEDIA’S COVERAGE OF COMPANY: Immelt Orders Nielsen Media Iced Over GE-NBCU-Obama Story: NBCU’s Zucker Follows Orders And Freezes Out The Hollywood Reporter For Past 6 Weeks

It’s a very dangerous situation when any huge multinational corporation wages war against media companies. Especially when that huge multinational corporation is General Electric, which itself owns a media company, NBC Universal, and it’s using all its power and influence and money to try to harm another media company, Nielsen, and Nielsen Business Media, and its trade publication The Hollywood Reporter. This certainly sounds like a situation which the FCC, and the FTC, and the U.S. Justice Department should be investigating. Just one problem: the controversy stems from GE/NBCU’s coverage of President Obama. Here’s what happened: read more

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(nbc) Broward Drops Charges Against Plax.  A technicality helps Burress beat four traffic tickets. 

(wsvn) Was Air France Flight 447 downed by wind and hail from towering thunderheads? By lightning? Or by a catastrophic combination of factors?

(cbs4) GM Selling Hummer Brand. Move Comes One Day After Filing For Bankruptcy Protection.

(wplg) A Miami-Dade County prosecutor was arrested Saturday evening, accused of attacking a pizza delivery woman.

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American Thinker

The Obama administration may assume that GM and Chrysler customers will remain loyal to the brands. But look, there weren’t enough loyal customers last year to save them. So the government car wizards must assume that the new, leaner GM and Chrysler will lure customers away from Ford and the foreign brands. But wait, Ford’s been gaining market share against the two new government automobile companies lately.

So down the track awaits Unintended Consequence (UC) #1: The old GM and Chrysler that once commanded a cadre of loyal customers now has new owners. Who’s to say they’ll remain loyal? When your favorite restaurant comes under new ownership, and that ownership has a reputation for serving bad food elsewhere, do you keep eating there? Only if you want food poisoning.

When sales of Chevy’s and Hemi’s continue to decline, the government will have to act to protect their — meaning “our” — investment (bailout). That’ll require special tax breaks for Chevy-Hemi buyers, and higher taxes on those who buy other brands in order to make up the lost treasury revenues.

When that doesn’t work, here comes UC #2: Additional tariffs on imported automobiles. But since many foreign brands are now manufactured in U.S. plants, that’s won’t work. So, foreign manufacturers operating U.S. plants will be subject to a Value Added Tax (VAT) to subsidize unsold government cars.

When people prefer the quality and superior fuel efficiency technologies of, say, Toyota and Honda, that’ll trigger UC #3:  Forced downsizing, and even closure, of foreign brand U.S. manufacturing plants in the face of government pressure to unionize their work force. That means lost jobs for non-union American auto workers. The UAW will cry crocodile tears.

UC #3 will trigger UC #4: Tariff retaliation from nations who have auto plants here but also import products from the U.S. In short, a trade war.

And then there’s that major fault line in the Obama administration’s plan for the American Green Fleet. The federal government has taken over much of an industry that it knows nothing about operating for a profit. In fact, it has no clue how to operate anything for a profit.  It’s only knows how to be a cost center, not a profit center.So the government — meaning “we” — will subsidize the inevitable, sustained losses of Government Motors and the new Chrysler.  Ten of billions more coming in bailouts.

And that will lead to UC#5: We won’t have enough money to keep GM and Chrysler alive indefinitely, even with the Federal Reserve’s printing presses running in overdrive. The only way for GM and Chrysler to succeed, for awhile longer, will be for the government to substantially reduce competition from foreign brands and tax gas to the point that Ford’s profitable reliance on trucks and SUV sales drives it, too, into bankruptcy. Anyone want to bet against that eventually happening?

Then, finally, there’s UC #6: Many us have bought our last GM or Chrysler product and will abstain from further purchases on the following consumer principle, that still lives in this as yet only partially socialized nation.    

 ”The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. They, by their buying and by their abstention from buying, decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterprises. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses. They are full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. They do not care a whit for past merit. As soon as something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. With them nothing counts more than their own satisfaction. They bother neither about the vested interest of capitalists nor about the fate of the workers who lose their jobs if, as consumers, they no longer buy what they used to buy.”  Bureaucracy, Ludwig von Mises, 1944, pp. 20-21

To succeed, the Obama administration will ultimately have to monopolize most of the U.S. auto fleet. Half-way measures won’t work. Just ask the USPS about their competitive disadvantages in operating against FedEx, UPS, et al. The impact of the train wreck that will complete the devolution of the U.S. auto industry is coming. And it won’t be pretty.

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Abortion advocates are busy scoring political points. So it’s Talk Radio’s fault that this nutjob went out and killed Tiller? It takes a certain amount of mental midgets to make such a ridiculous claim. Where exactly is the connection to the killer? And even if the killer was an O’Reilly viewer, so what? This is no different from when people were blaming Marilyn Manson for Columbine… I wonder how many living baby’s Tiller flushed down the toilet? Thousands? Who cried for them?

(CNN) — Dr. George Tiller, whose Kansas women’s clinic frequently took center stage in the U.S. debate over abortion, was shot and killed while serving as an usher at his Wichita church Sunday morning, police said.

Newsbusters**Liberal Blogs Quickly Link Doctor’s Murder to Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck

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The MTV Awards show was an example of extreme adolescent stupidity. They relied on laughs by repeating Sh*t and Fu*k in every segment. Every time someone said the F or S word the crowd cheered like if that was the hook of the joke. No matter how lame the skit all they had to do is put Fu*k at the end and everyone broke out in childish laughter. It is sad that this is what MTV has morphed into…mpress

(dlisted) Why Is Eminem Fighting It?  This is the only reason why the gods allowed the MTV Movie Awards to exist! Because if it didn’t, Bruno would have never fallen from the gay heaven and landed face first into Eminem’s lap. This is what they call “love at first sight.” Bruno and Eminem make 69ing look so beautiful and special.

(hollywood.com) What appeared to be a joke quickly turned awkward when it seemed apparent that Eminem wasn’t in on the gag. As a suspended Cohen cracked jokes about the incident, stating, “Is the real Slim Shady about to stand up?” Eminem and his entourage left their seats and walked out of the Universal Amphitheater.

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With all these weak kneed so called conservatives scared to death of Obama and his media minions let’s see how the Democrats treat the wrong kind of latino. Miguel Estrada was ruined and the Democrats killed his nomination because they wanted to nominate the first Latino.. They opposed him because he is Latino. There are memos that prove it..

What the Dems did to ruin a great latino…The tiny fraction of memos that have been released reveal a cynical, no-holds-barred manipulation of the process by leftist groups, which have amassed gigantic war chests for their efforts. The most egregious memo exposed thus far, written by a staffer to Senator Ted Kennedy, bluntly discusses an effort to affect the outcome of a then-pending case by delaying confirmation of an appeals court judge. The memo specifically recognizes the impropriety of delay for that purpose. Another memo attacks Miguel Estrada, who subsequently withdrew his nomination. His offenses: his career has left no paper trail to be picked apart; he’s Latino, and was thought being groomed for the Supreme Court.

(Byron York)****  

Unless something entirely unforeseen happens, confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor will be a lovefest for the Democrats who run the Senate Judiciary Committee.  There will be much talk about Sotomayor’s historic opportunity to become the first Hispanic on the Court, about her inspiring background, and about the sterling qualifications she would bring to the job.  Sotomayor will have the majority party strongly on her side, and odds are things will end happily for her.

For some Republicans, however, it will be hard to avoid thinking back a few years, to a confirmation hearing that didn’t end happily at all.  In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated former Justice Department lawyer Miguel Estrada to a seat on the federal courts of appeals.  In that instance, as today, the nominee was was a Hispanic with a compelling story and impressive qualifications.  And some of the very people who are today praising Sotomayor spent their time devising extraordinary measures to kill Estrada’s chances.

Born in Honduras, Estrada came to the United States at 17, not knowing a word of English.  He learned the language almost instantly, and within a few years was graduating with honors from Columbia University and heading off to Harvard Law School.  He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, was a prosecutor in New York, and worked at the Justice Department in Washington before entering private practice. 

Estrada’s nomination for a federal judgeship set off alarm bells among Democrats.  There is a group of left-leaning organizations — People for the American Way, NARAL, the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the NAACP, and others — that work closely with Senate Democrats to promote Democratic judicial nominations and kill Republican ones.  They were particularly concerned about Estrada.

In November, 2001, representatives of those groups met with Democratic Senate staff.  One of those staffers then wrote a memo to Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin, informing Durbin that the groups wanted to stall Bush nominees, particularly three they had identified as good targets.  ”They also identified Miguel Estrada as especially dangerous,” the staffer added, “because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino, and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment.  They want to hold Estrada off as long as possible.”

It was precisely the fact that Estrada was Hispanic that made Democrats and their activist allies want to kill his nomination.  They were determined to deny a Republican White House credit, political and otherwise, for putting a first-rate Hispanic nominee on the bench.

Durbin and his colleagues did as they were instructed.  But they had nothing with which to kill the nomination — no outrageous statement by Estrada, no ethical lapse, no nothing.  What to do?

They brainstormed. Estrada had once worked in the Justice Department’s Office of Solicitor General, right? (Appointed under the first President Bush, Estrada stayed to serve several years under Clinton.)  That office decides which cases the government will pursue in the Supreme Court, right? And that process involves confidential legal memoranda, right?  Well, why don’t we suggest that there might be something damaging in those memos — we have no idea whether there is or not — and demand that they be made public?

Durbin and his colleagues knew the Bush Justice Department would insist the internal legal memos remain confidential, as they always had been.  It wasn’t just the Bush Administration that thought releasing the documents was a terrible idea; all seven living former Solicitors General, Republican and Democrat, wrote a letter to Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy begging him to back off.

But the Democrats didn’t back off.  They had a new, very serious question to ask: What is Miguel Estrada hiding? 

The answer was nothing, of course.  But the strategy worked.  Democrats stonewalled Estrada’s nomination, and, after losing control of the Senate in 2002, they began an unprecedented round of filibusters to block an entire slate of Bush appeals-courts nominees, Estrada among them.  The confirmation process ground to a halt.  More than two years after his nomination was announced, Estrada, tired of what appeared to be an endless runaround, withdrew his name from consideration. Instead of being on the federal bench, he is now in private practice in Washington.

And that was how Democrats treated the last high-level Hispanic court nominee.  Think about that when you watch their lovefest with Sonia Sotomayor.

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(Newsbusters) **While reporting on disgraced priest Alberto Cutie leaving the Catholic Church in the wake of a sex scandal, on Friday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez asked CBS News analyst Father Thomas Williams about the Church’s celibacy rule: “It seems to me that the Catholic Church, at least in south Florida, is not necessarily being introspective and considering whether Father Cutie and others have left the Catholic Church, and others are failing to join, because of its stringent rules. Would you like to see your church be more introspective, more progressive?”

Code words all over the place. Hey he saw that cute chic and got horny!!! End of story…

(MH)** Father Alberto Cutié to join Episcopal church

The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the celebrity priest removed from his Miami Beach church after photos of him kissing and embracing a woman appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language magazine earlier this month, will leave the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami to join the Episcopal church

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Wash. Examiner) ** Evidence appears to be mounting that the What started earlier this week as mainly a rumbling on the Right side of the Blogosphere has gathered some steam today with revelations that among the dealers being shut down are a GOP congressman and closing of competitors to a dealership chain partly owned by former Clinton White House chief of staff Mack McLarty.

The basic issue raised here is this: How do we account for the fact millions of dollars were contributed to GOP candidates by Chrysler who are being closed by the government, but only one has been found so far that is being closed that contributed to the Obama campaign in 2008?

Florida Rep. Vern Buchanan learned from a House colleague that his Venice, Florida, dealership is on the hit list. Buchanan also has a Nissan franchise paired with the Chrysler facility in Venice.

“It’s an outrage. It’s not about me. I’m going to be fine,” said Buchanan, the dealership’s majority owner. “You’re talking over 100,000 jobs. We’re supposed to be in the business of creating jobs, not killing jobs,” Buchanan told News 10, a local Florida television station.

Buchanan, who succeeded former Rep. Katharine Harris in 2006, reportedly learned of his dealership’s termination from Rep.Candace Miller, R-MI. Buchanan owns a total of 23 dealerships in Florida and North Carolina.

Also fueling the controversy is the fact the RLJ-McCarty-Landers chain of Arkansas and Missouri dealerships aren’t being closed, but many of their local competitors are being eliminated. Go here for a detailed look at this situation. McClarty is the former Clinton senior aide. The “J” is Robert Johnson, founder of the Black Entertainment Television, a heavy Democratic contributor. 

A lawyer representing a group of  Chrysler dealers who are on the hit list deposed senior Chrysler executives and later told Reuters that he believes the closings have been forced on the company by the White House.

(Doug Ross)**  Dealers on the closing list donated millions to Republicans, $200 for Obama. The initial pass at the list of shuttered dealers showed they had donated, in the aggregate, 

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Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though some resistant structures exist.

 Maps

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A strong earthquake killed at least one man early Thursday as it collapsed homes in Honduras and Belize and sent people running into the streets in their pajamas as far away as Guatemala City. read more

(AP) 7.1 earthquake topples homes, kills Honduras teen

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He punched the dumb ass on beat and kept on rockin.

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Arrogant racists love laughing at you infidels

Why would Barack Obama nominate a racist “Latina” Judge. The pussy ass Republicans are running scared afraid of being called racists. The Democrats on the other hand have no problem trashing Latinos, remember how they treated the Republican “Latino’ Judges? Like if they were criminals. Alberto Gonzales was run out of town by the Dems working with the media. The Democrats have no use for conservative Latinos or Blacks. This Judge is racist against white males she admits it from her own mouth. But since she is a leftist Latina radical judge she has a right to.

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” — Judge Sonia Sotomayor, in her Judge Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law in 2001. Read more

Imagine if someone who happened to be born with a light complexion said this, “I would hope that a wise (white man) with the richness of his experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge] than a (Latino woman) who hasn’t lived that life.” Racism is racism…Angry Chico

Update: Critics focus on Sotomayor speech in La Raza journal 

Newsbusters Sotomayor Called Herself Liberal, But the NY Times Won’t 

Liberal Jonathan Turley: Sotomayor a mental midget Mathews reaction priceless

from http://volokh.com/

Law Professors Opposing Supreme Court Nominations: In 2005, 160 law professors penned a letter to Senators Specter and Leahy stating their opposition to John Roberts’ confirmation. The letter concluded, “On the existing record, we do not believe that Judge Roberts warrants a lifetime seat on our nation’s highest court, and we urge the Senate to withhold its consent to his confirmation.”

 In 2006, over 500 law professors signed a similar letter opposing Samuel Alito’s confirmation. It concluded, “Based on his fifteen-year record on the bench, we believe that Judge Alito would reshape the law in ways that make our country less equal and less free. We urge you to reject the nomination of Judge Alito nomination to the Supreme Court.”

 Any guesses as to whether there will be a similar letter this time, and how many law professors will sign it?

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The Miami Herald makes it clear that she was “religious.” When is that fish wrap going out of business?

(Herald) ** A religious school teacher was charged over the weekend with sexual battery on a teenager — hours after the two returned home from a trip to Disney World. read

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Making a Mockery of Being Green

(WSJ)*** On Wednesday at 9 p.m., “The Goode Family” will have its premiere on ABC and become the first animated series on the network’s prime-time lineup since 1995 when “The Critic” starring Jon Lovitz ended its second season.

Director Mike Judge’s new animated television series “The Goode Family” is a send-up of a clan of environmentalists who live by the words “What would Al Gore do?” Gerald and Helen Goode want nothing more than to minimize their carbon footprint. They feed their dog, Che, only veggies (much to the pet’s dismay) and Mr. Goode dutifully separates sheets of toilet paper when his wife accidentally buys two-ply. And, of course, the family drives a hybrid. read more

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All you muscle car lovers feast your eyes on your future ride. Below is a review by Jeremy Clarkson of Hondas new car the Insight. 

“In engineering terms, you really can’t have “brilliant, apart from … I mean, the Titanic was brilliant, apart from its crappy rudder”

Times Online — Much has been written about the Insight, Honda’s new low-priced hybrid. We’ve been told how much carbon dioxide it produces, how its dashboard encourages frugal driving by glowing green when you’re easy on the throttle and how it is the dawn of all things. The beginning of days. So far, though, you have not been told what it’s like as a car; as a tool for moving you, your friends and your things from place to place. So here goes. It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.

So you’re sitting there with the engine screaming its head off, and your ears bleeding, and you’re doing only 23mph because that’s about the top speed, and you’re thinking things can’t get any worse, and then they do because you run over a small piece of grit.

However, as a result of all this, prices start at £15,490 — that’s £3,000 or so less than the cost of the Prius. But at least with the Toyota there is no indication that you’re driving a car with two motors. In the Insight you are constantly reminded, not only by the idiotic dashboard, which shows leaves growing on a tree when you ease off the throttle (pass the sick bucket), but by the noise and the ride and the seats. And also by the hybrid system Honda has fitted. In a Prius the electric motor can, though almost never does, power the car on its own. In the Honda the electric motor is designed to “assist” the petrol engine, providing more get-up-and-go when the need arises. The net result is this: in a Prius the transformation from electricity to petrol is subtle. In the Honda there are all sorts of jerks and clunks.  Read more

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What would any of us do to save the life of a loved one? Right after 9/11 before the democrats saw a big political advantage in sabotaging Bush’s Presidency, Americans priority was to save our loved ones lives. We didn’t know if there were multiple plans hatched under BJ’s administration waiting to arise. Unless Obama has himself thwarted a terrorist attack while working for Acorn, what experience does he have in counter intelligence?

Who would the average American trust if a member of their family God forbid was in a building held hostage by terrorists? The CIA has one of them in custody. Do you use every option to save their lives or do you get them a public defender and read them their rights? Obama is a fraud if he thinks he can fool all Americans into believing he would do anything different than Cheney when confronted with the same situation. In Fact he has already presided over the deaths of many combatants and the innocent.

Neeson gets ready for some enhanced action

Take for instance one of the biggest hits of the year, Taken starring Liam Neeson as an ex–CIA agent trying to mend a broken relationship with his 17-year-old daughter. She is kidnapped and sold into slavery by some scumbags.  In the quest to save his daughter Neeson tortured and murdered almost everyone he ran into. He made Bronson look like a pussy. How many people who saw this this film were worried about the enhanced interrogation methods of Neeslon? How many were disappointed Neeson wasn’t charged with torture as the happy ending? I want to know what Obama would do in Neesons shoes? I know what Cheney would do….mpress

May 22 (Bloomberg) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney accomplished something yesterday that Republicans have seldom been able to do: directly challenge President Barack Obama in real time on a major policy issue.  

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  Now these guys I would not waterboard.  

Four New York men were arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to blow up area Jewish centers and military targets. The plot, however, was foiled by undercover agents.

Daily News does give Muslim names.

Today Obama seemed to think it was a good idea to spread our prison system with over 200 savages who are much smarter than these four idiots.

Obama: Some Guantanamo prisoners to go to U.S. yes they will make great instructors in Jihad. 

Didn’t the guy that runs DHS warn us that it was Right Wing Cuban American Freedom fighters that were a threat to the motherland?

 From DHS Cuban independence extremism (U//FOUO)  A movement of groups or individuals who do not recognize the legitimacy of the Communist Cuban Government and who attempt to subvert it through acts of violence, mainly within the United States.   

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We here at miamipress.net warned America of the Leftist socialist agenda that was coming. Millions of Americans voted for expanded Socialism and now they will get it. Get ready for a major lifestyle change you greedy Capitalists. Americans will soon be driving sardine cans with lawn mower engines.

GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov’t

Look what tax cheat GEITHNER:  said- ”We’re going to have to get back to living within our means.  And that’s going to require demonstrating to people we’re willing to stop doing things they’ve been doing, give up things that we don’t want to give up, and that will be a challenge.”

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X-ray of Ida

Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution. Scientists say Ida - squashed to the thickness of a beer mat by the immense passage of time - is the most complete primate fossil ever found. Read

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House of the future, If the Greens have their way 

detnews.com – It was supposed to be a shining example of the green movement — a completely independent solar-powered house with no gas or electrical hookups. Seven months ago, officials gathered for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the $900,000 house owned by the city of Troy that was to be used as an educational tool and meeting spot. But it never opened to the public. And it remains closed. Frozen pipes during the winter caused $16,000 in damage to floors, and city officials aren’t sure when the house at the Troy Community Center will open.

“It’s not safe right now, and there’s no estimated opening time because it depends on when we can get funding,” said Carol Anderson, director of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. That surprised the Oakland County Planning and Economic Development Department, which advertised tours of the house for its Tuesday Oakland County Green Summit. ”No, I didn’t know anything about it,” said Steve Huber, spokesman for county planning. Bret Rasegnan, planning supervisor for the department, said the solar tours have been removed from the finalized agenda for the summit. ”It is disappointing that we can’t tour, but the summit will still be of great value. I don’t think it’s reflective of the technology.” 

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Who did you vote for?

In the name of social justice 

MYFOXNY.COM - This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury — but it wasn’t for her. WATCH DICK BRENNAN’S REPORT (VIDEO

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Debate Over ‘Torture’ Lacks Seriousness

By Thomas Sowell

One of the many signs of the degeneration of our times is how many serious, even life-and-death, issues are approached as talking points in a game of verbal fencing. Nothing illustrates this more than the fatuous, and even childish, controversy about “torturing” captured terrorists.

People’s actions often make far more sense than their words. Most of the people who are talking lofty talk about how we mustn’t descend to the level of our enemies would themselves behave very differently if presented with a comparable situation, instead of being presented with an opportunity to be morally one up with rhetoric.

What if it was your mother or your child who was tied up somewhere beside a ticking time bomb and you had captured a terrorist who knew where that was? Face it: What you would do to that terrorist to make him talk would make water-boarding look like a picnic.

You wouldn’t care what the New York Times would say or what “world opinion” in the U.N. would say. You would save your loved one’s life and tell those other people what they could do.

But if the United States behaves that way it is called “arrogance”– even by American citizens. Indeed, even by the American president.

There is a big difference between being ponderous and being serious. It is scary when the President of the United States is not being serious about matters of life and death, saying that there are “other ways” of getting information from terrorists.

Maybe this is a step up from the previous talking point that “torture” had not gotten any important information out of terrorists. Only after this had been shown to be a flat-out lie did Barack Obama shift his rhetoric to the lame assertion that unspecified “other ways” could have been used.

For a man whose whole life has been based on style rather than substance, on rhetoric rather than reality, perhaps nothing better could have been expected. But that the media and the public would have become so mesmerized by the Obama cult that they could not see through this to think of their own survival, or that of this nation, is truly a chilling thought.

When we look back at history, it is amazing what foolish and even childish things people said and did on the eve of a catastrophe about to consume them. In 1938, with Hitler preparing to unleash a war in which tens of millions of men, women and children would be slaughtered, the play that was the biggest hit on the Paris stage was a play about French and German reconciliation, and a French pacifist that year dedicated his book to Adolf Hitler.

When historians of the future look back on our era, what will they think of our time? Our media too squeamish to call murderous and sadistic terrorists anything worse than “militants” or “insurgents”? Our president going abroad to denigrate the country that elected him, pandering to feckless allies and outright enemies, and literally bowing to a foreign tyrant ruling a country from which most of the 9/11 terrorists came?

It is easy to make talking points about how Churchill did not torture German prisoners, even while London was being bombed. There was a very good reason for that: They were ordinary prisoners of war who were covered by the Geneva Convention and who didn’t know anything that would keep London from being bombed.

Whatever the verbal fencing over the meaning of the word “torture,” there is a fundamental difference between simply inflicting pain on innocent people for the sheer pleasure of it– which is what our terrorist enemies do– and getting life-saving information out of the terrorists by whatever means are necessary.

The left has long confused physical parallels with moral parallels. But when a criminal shoots at a policeman and the policeman shoots back, physical equivalence is not moral equivalence. And what American intelligence agents have done to captured terrorists is not even physical equivalence.

If we have reached the point where we cannot be bothered to think beyond rhetoric or to make moral distinctions, then we have reached the point where our own survival in an increasingly dangerous world of nuclear proliferation can no longer be taken for granted.

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Babalu- Yoani Sanchez and Reinaldo Escobar go to the Hotel Melia Cohiba and attempt to purchase an hour of internet time. As Cuban nationals, they are denied:

Yoani Sanchez- “Yesterday, May 9, I went to the Meliá Cohiba hotel to check if the Internet access limitations for Cubans continue.  Several friends had told me that the measure had been rescinded… but I wanted to check for myself. So Reinaldo and I went and made this little video. The “tourist” who appears to be reading the newspaper Granma is me.”

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By Humberto Fontava

“Fidel Castro is a genius!” gushed Jack Nicholson after a visit with the Cuban Führer in 1998. “We spoke about everything,” the actor rhapsodized further. “Castro is a humanist like President Clinton. Cuba is simply a paradise!” Jack Nicholson has been saying such things for years now. Many of his Hollywood cohorts follow suit.

“Socialism works. I think Cuba might prove that” (Chevy Chase).

“Castro is very selfless and moral, one of the world’s wisest men” (Oliver Stone).

“If you believe in freedom, if you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, you have no choice but to support Fidel Castro!” (Harry Belafonte). ”It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him (Castro)” Kevin Costner.

“The eight most important hours of my life,” Stephen Spielberg describing his dinner with Castro.

While holding up the book “Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant” on his TV show, Bill O’Reilly called these celebs “Hollywood pinheads.”

But there might be more to these celebrity plugs for a tyrant who jailed more of his subjects than did Hitler or Stalin than the usual celebrity vacuity upstairs.

“My job was to bug their hotel rooms,” says high-ranking Cuban intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez. “With both cameras and listening devices. Most people have no idea they are being watched while they are in Cuba. But their personal activities are filmed under orders from Castro himself.”

And according to some sources, Havana, given the desperation of its brutalized and impoverished residents, has recently topped Bangkok as the world mecca for child sex.

“He [Delfin Fernandez] has not only met some of the most famous men in the world,” says the London Daily Mirror about the Cuban defector, “he’s also spied on them and been witness to some of their most innermost secrets.”

“When the celebrity visitors arrived at the hotels Nacional, Melia Habana and Melia Cohiba,” says Fernandez, “we already had their rooms completely bugged with sophisticated taping equipment. But not just the rooms, we’d also follow the visitors around. Sometimes we covered them 24 hours a day. They had no idea we were tailing them.”

Famous Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar was a special target for this bugging, but nothing of value for Castro came of it. “Everybody already knows I’m a maricon!” Almodovar laughed at Castro’s blackmailers. “So go right ahead! Knock yourselves out!”

“Fidel Castro is a special connoisseur of these tapings and videos,” Fernandez says. “Especially of the really famous.” And not even his closest “friends” are safe from this bugging. The best example is Castro’s longtime “friend” Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In what appeared as a touching act of generosity and friendship, Castro gave his friend “Gabo” his very own [stolen] mansion in Havana.

“We had remodeled it right before,” remembers intelligence honcho Fernandez, “and we installed more cables for bugging devices than for the normal electrical appliances. We taped everything! Fidel doesn’t trust anyone.”

Castro’s top intelligence people would gather for the screenings of these tapes almost like Hollywood types for an upcoming movie. “Hmmmm, these scenes are more scandalous than anything in any of her movies!” Fernandez recalls a top intelligence officer chortling while watching the nighttime cavortings of a famous Spanish actress.

“Now it really seems to me, compañeros,” the Castro intimate chortled as he looked around the room, “that this señora should be making more respectful comments about our regime, right?”

“But famous Americans are the priority objectives of Castro’s intelligence,” says Fernandez. “When word came down that models Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss were coming to Cuba, the order was a routine one: 24-hour-a-day vigilance. Then we got a priority alert,” recalls Fernandez, “because there was a rumor that they would be sharing a room with Leonardo DiCaprio. The rumor set off a flurry of activity, and we set up the most sophisticated devices we had.”

“The American actor Jack Nicholson was another celebrity who was bugged and taped thoroughly during his stay in the hotel Melia Cohiba,” states Fernandez, the man in charge of the bugging.

Turns out, however, that at least one visiting dignitary foiled Castro’s intelligence. On his visit to Cuba in 1998, Pope John Paul II’s assistants discovered and removed several bugging devices from His Holiness’s hotel room.

Perhaps Castro had a grudge against the papacy. Most don’t recall, but in January 1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro from the Catholic Church. It seemed fitting, considering the hundreds of Cuban men and boys crumpling to Castro’s firing squads while yelling “Long Live Christ the King!” during their last seconds alive.

Oddly (at first), Hollywood A-lister Charlize Theron traveled to Cuba in 2007 and returned without the paeans to its Stalinist regime that habitually issue from her colleagues after such visits. So pigs worldwide started sprouting wings.

During her Cuban visit Ms. Theron helped produce a documentary (”East of Havana”) on Cuban hip-hop artists that cast the Castro regime in a negative light. Pigs worldwide started flapping and taxiing down the runway.

On ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Charlize Theron said: “I think the (Cuban) younger generation is starting to say, ‘You know what? It doesn’t work. We’re not happy. We want to have freedom of speech. We want to be able to travel.’” By now every pig from Bangkok to Stockholm was galloping madly and flapping furiously while nearing the end of his runway.

During a subsequent interview on CNN, anchor Rick Sanchez started to ask Theron about the lack of freedoms in Cuba. She interrupted the question with the following: “I would argue that there’s a lack of freedom in America.” Whoops!–Pigs worldwide promptly cocked their ears and started slowing down both their hoofbeats and wingbeats. ”I seem to recall,” explained the Academy Award winning Best Actress, “some time ago some reporters being fired from their jobs for speaking up on television about how they felt about the war.” ”But do you think the lack of freedoms in Cuba are parallel to the lack of freedoms in the United States?” asked CNN’s Sanchez.

“Well, I would,” answered Theron. Pigs worldwide now stopped flapping and cupped their ears in rapt attention. “I would compare those two,” continued Theron. “Yes, definitely.”

Inches from the end of the runway pigs worldwide dug in their heels and jammed their engines into reverse, thus remaining earthbound. “Ah!” they squealed. “Now this is more like it!” Their wings retracted and they returned to their wallows, grunting contentedly.

After many nights of scrutiny and meditation, the best my team of analysts can determine is that Charlize Theron equates the policies of a regime that incarcerated political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s, that machine guns to death entire families for attempting to travel abroad, that mandates (under penalty of prison or firing squad) what its subjects, read, say, eat, earn, eat (both substance and amount), where they live, travel or work — she equates this regime with a government under which a private corporation owned by stockholders terminated some employees for violating company guidelines.

OK, so Cuba’s a repressive place — but no more repressive than the U.S. Charlize Theron made this clear. So let’s give her time. As a political philosopher, she’s obviously not shoulder to shoulder with Hollywood’s best and brightest just yet. But she’s off to a promising start. By Hollywood standards her logic seems airtight.

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Not funny: Barack Obama laughs at Wanda Sykes “joke” about wanting Rush Limbaugh dead

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That celibacy thing has never worked with mere human beings. We all are sinners. Our advice to Padre Alberto is to star in his own reality show, where he will be tempted with half naked beautiful women. The winner is the girl who can make him break his vow of celibacy.

 Miami Herald reports, The Rev. Alberto Cutié, a national figure with movie star looks, was removed from his Miami Beach church Tuesday after photographs appeared in a magazine showing him frolicking with a woman in the sand on a Florida beach. A wildly popular Catholic priest, newspaper columnist and radio and television personality, Cutié will no longer run operations or lead Sunday Mass at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.

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Biden sends out alarm

Joe Biden thankfully can not keep his mouth shut.

(CBS) Vice president Joe Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered as the swine flu outbreak spread to 11 states and forced school closures amid confirmation of the first U.S. death.

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Conservatives do not hate Robert Gibbs they do seem to agree that he is immensely unqualified.

Check out the progressive hate comments

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