Hillary's Girlfriend Opting for Weiner?

According to Page Six, it appears to be the case.

HUMA Abedin, the traveling aide who is rarely out of Hillary Rodham Clinton's sight, has been seen with bachelor Rep. Anthony Weiner on the campaign trail. Shortly before Clinton arrived for a fund-raiser Thursday night at the Hiro club in the Meatpacking District, Abedin was spotted going into the Maritime Hotel around the corner with Weiner. If they were trying to keep their affair a secret, you'd think they'd find someplace where political reporters wouldn't be walking by.

H/T: Glenn Reynolds.

Previously.

BDS on Steroids: Brattleboro Boobs to Vote on Arresting Bush and Cheney, Requisite Hitler Analogy Added for Good Measure

Kurt Daims, evidence that liberalism indeed is a mental disorder

We mentioned these crackpots last month, and apparently the public ridicule has done nothing to dissuade them from their futile mission.

It's sad to watch hatred consume people to such an extent, but considering the closet case Che Guevara wannabes we're dealing with, we'll eschew sympathy in lieu of some light snickering.

Brattleboro residents will vote at town meeting on whether President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should be indicted and arrested for war crimes, perjury or obstruction of justice if they ever step foot in Vermont.

The Brattleboro Select Board voted 3-2 Friday to put the controversial item on the Town Meeting Day warning.

According to Town Clerk Annette Cappy, organizers of the Bush-Cheney issue gathered enough signatures, and it was up to the Select Board whether Brattleboro voters would consider the issue in March.

Cappy said residents will get to vote on the matter by paper balloting March 4.

Kurt Daims, 54, of Brattleboro, the organizer of the petition drive, said Friday the debate to get the issue on the ballot was a good one. Opposition to the vote focused on whether the town had any power to endorse the matter.

"It is an advisory thing," said Daims, a retired prototype machinist and stay-at-home dad of three daughters.

So far, Vermont is the only state Bush hasn't visited since he became president in 2001.

Daims said the most grievous crime committed by Bush and Cheney was perjury — lying to Congress and U.S. citizens about the basis of a war in Iraq.

He said the latest count showed a total of 600,000 people have died in the war.

Daims apparently hasn't gotten the memo on George Soros Lancet study long ago having been discredited.

Guess he's not reading the right blogs.

Anyway, Daims continued on his psychotic rant and naturally drew the tired comparison to Hitler.

Daims had no compunction in comparing Bush and Cheney with one of the most notorious people in history.

"If Hitler were still alive and walked through Brattleboro, I think the local police would arrest him for war crimes," Daims said.

Dude's got to freshen up his material.

Pantsuit: Bill's Been a Racist Asshole Because He's Tired

Gag alert. She claims he also has been behaving like the boor we've always known him to be because he loves her.

Right.

Hillary Clinton admitted Sunday her husband Bill's hard-charging campaign tactics had gone overboard, but chalked the ex-president's fiery broadsides up to love and a chronic lack of sleep.

A day after rival Barack Obama trounced her in the South Carolina primary, the former first lady also mounted a vigorous defense of the two Clinton White House terms, which Obama has said did not spark transformational change.

Clinton was asked on CBS television's "Face the Nation" whether her husband was "out of control" after he took the Illinois senator, and the media to task, during a foul-tempered week-long campaign.

"You know, my husband has such a great commitment to me and to my campaign," the New York senator said.

"He loves me just like, you know, husbands and wives get out there and work on each others' behalf."

She blamed the tensions of the tight battle for the party's presidential nomination

"Maybe he got a little carried away. You know, that comes with a hard-fought election," she said.

"It also comes with sleep deprivation which, you know, I think is marking all of us, our families, our supporters," said Clinton, who herself is running low on sleep, as she jets back-and-forth across the country.

You know, she says you know way too often.

Here's something I do know. These two vile lowlifes have been a blot on our nation's existence for far too long, and now the left is even realizing this.

You know, it would be nice if this hag was sent packing Super Tuesday.

NYT Public Editor: We're Totally Inept, But Stand By Our Stories Slandering the Troops

The New York Times Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, is in the unenviable position of trying to defend the outrageous series of stories, which continue today, that portray our troops as bloodthirsty, psychopathic killers.

Naturally, he takes a swipe at the New York Post (Ralph Peters demolished the original story here) and conservative bloggers who shredded the initial story for its outrageous portrayal of troops who've been charged with crimes since returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. The original piece was immediately taken apart and unwittingly showed those who served in the military were five times less likely to commit felonies than the average citizen.

Now Hoyt continues to compound the error today.

Stories That Speak for Themselves

But The Times made some missteps at the beginning of the series, and critics have pounced, accusing it of demonizing veterans and exaggerating the problem even as some mental health professionals have thanked the newspaper.

Well, Clark, the critics pounced because the story was blatantly misleading.

How difficult is that to understand. If there weren't any missteps, like you say, maybe nobody would have pounced.

Are you really that dense?

The Times was immediately accused — in The New York Post and the conservative blogosphere, and by hundreds of messages to the public editor — of portraying all veterans as unstable killers. It did not.

Really? Then why was there such outrage across the board? He gives it away in the very next sentence.

But, the first article used colorfully inflated language — “trail of death” — for a trend it could not reliably quantify, despite an attempt at statistical analysis using squishy numbers.

So in one breath, Hoyt claims they were not trying to portray the troops as killers, then admits to using colorfully inflated language with squishy numbers.

What else is one to convey from this? That it was a fair and honest portrayal using statistically valid methodology?

Of course not. It was what it was, a vile hit piece beyond the realm of responsible journalism.

Finally, while many of the 121 cases found by The Times appeared clearly linked to wartime stresses, others seemed questionable. One involved a Navy Seabee accused of arranging her ex-husband’s murder during a bitter child custody battle, and another involved a soldier who was acquitted of reckless homicide in a car crash after a jury concluded that his blood alcohol level was below the legal limit and that many other accidents had happened on the same stretch of road.

So other seemed questionable? This begs the question: Where were the editors to vet this story? Apparently, they couldn't be bothered to read the story in advance.

Unreal.

Purdy urged me not to get lost in the numbers as I looked at the first two articles. I agree with that, but I believe The Times tangled itself in numbers right at the start. Bill Keller, the executive editor, said the newsroom’s computer-assisted reporting unit normally screens articles with statistical analyses. Some of the problems might have been avoided if someone in the unit had read the first article before it was published. But Terry Schwadron, the editor who oversees the unit, which created a database for the 121 cases, said that did not happen. “I read the story in the paper, and I shared some concerns” with Purdy, he said.

At the least, Terry Schwadron should be dismissed from his job.

As for Keller, he long ago forfeited any credibility and if the New York Times Board of Directors is content seeing the paper hemorrhage money and readers and still keeps him on, that's their problem.

In the end, Hoyt is reduced to a mealy-mouthed defense.

But the questionable statistics muddy the message. A handful of killings caused by the stresses of war would be too many and cause for action. Sometimes, trying to turn such stories into data — with implications of statistical proof and that old journalistic convention, the trend — harms rather than helps.

Yes, Clark, and that's why today the New York Times has so little credibility.

You folks would be better off scrapping this insulting series now.

Sadly, the two hacks with their bylines on this slander will probably wind up with Pulitzer Prizes.

Nice Outfit

They're going to love this fellow in the can.

Allentown police had suspected William Torres of dealing drugs in the city. But an undercover narcotics investigation yielded much more, and resulted in Torres, 21, being charged early Saturday with two counts of homicide.

Police said Torres, whose last known address was 436 Turner St., Allentown, gunned down two men at Fourth and Allen streets last month. According to court documents, Torres admitted killing the men.

Torres was driving on Turner Street Friday afternoon when he was pulled over by police and arrested. He was wearing a hooded sweartshirt with a skull-head pattern on it, pajama bottoms and fuzzy lion-faced slippers at the time. He was still wearing the get-up when he was arraigned after midnight at Lehigh County prison.

Bahrain Labour Minister: Gulf Arabs are Lazy

Surely, the locals will muster up the energy to seethe and whine when they read about this. Granted, he probably just doesn't want so many many people from the Asian sub-continent living in his country, but he does make a good point.

Bahrain labour minister warns of 'Asian tsunami'

DUBAI (AFP) - A Bahraini minister has warned of an "Asian tsunami" because of the reliance of "lazy" Gulf Arabs on foreign labour to carry out even the simplest tasks, in an interview published on Sunday.

Labour Minister Majid al-Alawi told Asharq Al-Awsat that the presence of almost 17 million foreign workers in the Gulf, mostly from the Asian sub-continent, represented "a danger worse than the atomic bomb or an Israeli attack".

"I am not exaggerating that the number will reach almost 30 million in ten years from now," he told the pan-Arab daily.

Alawi has called for the residency of foreign workers in the oil-rich Gulf states to be limited to six years but the leadership of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council has not followed up on the proposal.

"The commercial lobby in the Gulf thwarted the project which was in the final phases before being implemented," he said.

Alawi said that Gulf nationals were "lazy" and "spoilt", relying on imported labour for the simplest of tasks.

"A lord with billions in Great Britain cleans his own car on a Sunday morning, whereas people of the Gulf look for someone to hand them a glass of water from just a couple of metres away," he said.

"If the Gulf governments do not watch out for this tsunami of foreign labourers, the fate of this region is very worrying," he said.

Al Alwai had previously lived in exile in London. He may again be exiled after this.

How unenthusiastic are Republican voters this year?

Based on the early turnouts Republican voters are not too happy with the choices they have. The totals for the four states for which there is data shows the Democrats doing a much better job at getting the vote out. The states I used to gather this data are IA, NH, MI, and SC.

There were no totals for NE, the IA results are estimates and only the Republicans have had a primary in WY so I didn't include WY in the totals. Total number of voters.

Democrats - 955,493
Republicans - 689,500

It will be interesting to keep an eye on the turnout for both parties. No doubt the Democrats will continue to get big turnouts. Nothing like the little race/gender war that they have ginned up to get out the voters.

And if I hear one more person say they voted for XYZ because of charisma, looks, or good speaking I am absolutely going to puke. For some reason I don't think those are the qualities our enemies are looking for.

They are looking for who is the biggest fool they can pull the wool over the eyes of or who is going to be most willing to surrender to their demands. The Islamic extremists want the person most afraid of confrontation.

For the folks that didn't see my post yesterday about a new face in the Republican race click here to learn about Jerry Curry, somebody who needs to get his message and his face out there fast.

Miss America 2008

Forget South Carolina and the Democrat primary. For my money, the big contest last night was out in Las Vegas, where a much better looking assemblage of talent was on display.

The lovely and talented Miss Michigan, 19-year-old Kirsten Haglund, has been crowned Miss America for 2008.

Miss Michigan Kirsten Haglund, a 19-year-old aspiring Broadway star, was crowned Miss America 2008 on Saturday in a live show billed as the unveiling of the 87-year-old pageant's new, hipper look.

Haglund, of Farmington Hills, Mich., sang "Over the Rainbow" and walked a crowd-pleasing strut in a black and gold bikini to clinch the title. She beat Miss Indiana Nicole Elizabeth Rash, the first runner up, and Miss Washington Elyse Umemoto, the second runner up for the $50,000 scholarship and year of travel that comes with the crown.

Haglund, who studies music at the University of Cincinnati, grew up in a pageant family. Her mother is an active volunteer, and her grandmother Iora Hunt, competed for the crown as Miss Michigan 1944. Hunt joined Haglund at a news conference.

"The only words that come to my mind is that this is a dream come true, not just for me but for my family as well," Haglund said. "I'm not just standing up here alone."

Haglund, a cheery, classic blond, wore a revealing silver sequined dress and black bikini during the evening gown and swimsuit portions of the pageant. As her platform issue, she promised to advocate for awareness of eating disorders, an illness from which she has recovered.

Here she is with more clothing on.


While I won't quibble with the ultimate selection, I'd been hoping Miss Utah won, but it was not to be.

Usually tame by modern TV standards, the swimwear competition kicked it up a notch. Most contestants wore black bikinis, and some struck provocative poses and twirled as the audience howled. Contestants also wore blue jeans and added a bit of humor to the traditional opening number, the parade of states.

Haglund's moves won howls from the audience. "I think for the audience, the swimwear and evening wear was much more entertaining, am I right?" Haglund said when asked about the show's new look.

The changes included a chance for "Reality Check" viewers to text message votes for their favorite contestant. Miss Utah, Jill Stevens, an Army medic who served in Afghanistan, was named "America's Choice."

Stevens did not make to the final 10, but she took the disappointment with pluck. She dropped and gave the audience push ups before joining the other losers on a riser on the side.

Miss Wisconsin Christina Thompson, left, and Miss Utah Jill Stevens do push-ups after Stevens was eliminated from the finalists during the Miss America Pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Finally, one last look at Miss Haglund.




UPDATE: Instapundit links. Thanks!

DOCTORS TO STOP TREATING THE SICK!

Isn't is somewhat surreal to read that British doctors would like to stop having to treat the elderly and the unhealthy? Or is it?

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the national health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. They are right - unlimited free health care is a contradiction in terms. Fertility treatment and "social" abortions are also on the list of procedures that many doctors say should not be funded by the state. Again, I fully agree with this.

However where I profoundly disagree with these doctors is that they are trying to decide who will and who will not receive treatments. Where did they get THAT power, exactly? If the obese, the smokers, the elderly etc want to get treatments that may prolong and improve their lives, they must have that right. But they must also PAY for it. And this is my fundamental point - socialised medicine is such a very bad idea.

People should take responsibility for their own health and making the necessary FINANCIAL provision. For decades, Britons have been told that the State will provide them with all their medical needs. That was a lie then, it's a bigger lie now. But we have generations of people who think that the National Health Service will provide them with all that they need. The truth is that it cannot, it will not, and they are being led a merry dance by successive British governments. Telling the electorate that they will have to be financially responsible for their own health is not good for ones political health but no one will say it. But it's still the truth.

Socialised medicine, that proposed by Hillary Clinton, does not work. It is worse than that though because it relentlessly drives down medical standards, it provides the worst of all worlds, and means that we end up with doctors deciding that they will not treat the sick and needy.

Cross posted on A Tangled Web

Never Again

Holocaust should not be forgotten - Czech president
Prague- The extermination of European Jews by the Nazi regime should not be forgotten and should remain an everlasting memento, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said today at a meeting in the Czech Senate commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Today it may be more necessary to recall the crimes against humanity committed against the Jewish population than decades ago because of the efforts to re-write the past and use its false picture for political purposes, Klaus said.

"We do not do this only for historical piety, but also for our future. We do this to prevent similar monstrous crimes against humanity from ever repeating," he said.

"The genocide of European Jews must not be forgotten and must remain an everlasting memento. This memento will remind us of the evil that people are capable to commit against each other. It should be a memento that will strengthen our belief in the fundamental importance of human freedom because it is the only guarantee that similar tragic events will never repeat," Klaus said.

The Holocaust, an international word that is not quite understandable in the Czech language, is used by Czechs to describe "may be the most awful and shameful crime in human history," Klaus said.

"However, I fear whether this one foreign word could complicate our possibility to sufficiently realise and feel the whole depth of monstrosity of what had happened then, the monstrosity of the extermination of European Jews by the German Nazi regime," Klaus said.

The modern time and its problems make the historical experience from the Holocaust distant for new generations, he said.

"We have experience with the efforts to re-write the past, replace the committers and victims, compare their sufferings and politically abuse a false picture of the past thus created," Klaus said.

"That is why it is necessary to point to the importance to commemorate the Holocaust victims today, may be even more than in the past," Klaus said.

He appreciated that not only Jewish organisations commemorate the Holocaust victims.

Klaus pointed to the significance of the passing of a law by the Czech parliament five years ago that made Holocaust Remembrance Day a memorial day in the Czech Republic.

This day became an opportunity for all to remember the common lesson from the tragedy of the Nazi "Final Solution of the Jewish Question," Klaus said.

Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust in the World War Two, is celebrated on January 27, the day of the liberation of the Osvetim (Auschwitz) Nazi extermination camp.

In the Czech Republic, like in most European Union member states, it has been marked since 2004.

"The day reminds us that evil should be destructed on the start and that the roots of extremism do not lie in any concrete ideology, concrete religion or concrete national community," Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (senior governing Civic Democrats, ODS) today said in a statement CTK received.

The special session in the Senate today was attended by Senate chairman Premysl Sobotka (ODS), Chamber of Deputies chairman Miloslav Vlcek (senior opposition Social Democrats, CSSD) and other guests.

Sobotka said that it was necessary to constantly mobilise all decent people for the opposition against evil and warned against the "underestimation of new dark risks."

Karel Holomek, chairman of the Association of Moravian Romanies, said that the fates of Jews and Romanies were similar during the Holocaust.

"This shows that the monstrosity of racist theories and their implementation should never be forgotten," he said.

Via ČeskéNoviny.cz/ČTK

Video courtesy of jluis333

The Wannsee Conference took place on October 20, 1942 in the Berlin suburb of Wannssee. In the HBO film, Conspiracy, Kevin Branagh portrays SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, architect of The Final Solution to the Jewish Question. Stanley Tucci portrayed Heydrich's able assistant, SS Colonel Adolph Eichmann; and Colin Firth presented a chilling performance as Dr. Wilhelm Stukart, representing the Reich Ministry of Justice. In this clip, Stukart gives an impassioned defense of the Nuremberg Laws and well he should -- he was the principal author.


The Reality of the Jew
Conspiracy | HBO Films
Video courtesy of HenryvKeiper

Life Imitates Art: Dopey Kids Edition

Some kids are really stupid.

CHESTERTON, Ind. — Two fourth-grade boys mimicking a scene from the movie "A Christmas Story" wound up with their tongues stuck to a frozen flagpole.

Gavin Dempsey and James Alexander were serving on flag duty at Jackson Elementary School Friday morning, with the job of raising and lowering the school's flags. They decided to see if their tongues really would stick to the cold metal.

"I decided to try it because I thought all of the TV shows were lies, but turns out I was wrong," Gavin said.

Karen Alexander, James' mother, said her son told her he got the idea from the movie, which is based on stories about a boy growing up in the northwest Indiana community of Hammond in the 1940s.

"I can't believe he did it, but they learned their lesson," she said.

Munchies Sold Separately

Well, you still need a prescription.

Los Angeles, CA -- Ironically...pot dispensing vending machines have been approved in California.

Starting Monday, patients can buy legal medical marijuana at a Los Angeles herbal nutrition center.

All they have to do is pass through security, submit their scripts, pay, and pick-up their drugs.

Store employees say it is a safe, fast way to process prescriptions.

Geoff Dulebohn, Herbal Nutrition Center: "They'll slide card in, and they'll fingerprint in to verify that it's them. A camera takes a picture of them, verifying that they're actually at the machine."

Why don't they just make it easier and use couriers?

Good News: Spy Satellite Could Hit the Earth

Where it lands, nobody knows.

A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday.

The satellite, which no longer be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it might come down, they said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the information is classified as secret.

Well, it was secret.

It may well be harmless, but who knows.

Maybe with the 24/7 news coverage we now get, we could have real hysteria like back in 1979 when Skylab came tumbling down then fell harmlessly into the Indian Ocean.

Hot Air links. Thanks!

UPDATE: As noted here and in the comments, parts of Skylab hit did hit Australia.

It's a Shame He Lived So Long

A real wart on the face of mankind has passed away.

Good riddance.

George Habash, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), died on Saturday in Amman at the age of 81, an official Jordanian source told AFP.

Habash stepped down as head of the Damascus-based PFLP in July 2000 after having led the faction which is a key component of the Palestine Liberation Organisation for more than 30 years.

He had been living in Jordan, the homeland of his wife, after an illness forced his retirement from political life.

The PFLP under Habash had hijacked airliners to Jordan and he called for the overthrow of Jordan's monarchy in 1970 before the Black September clashes in which the Jordanian army expelled the PLO from the kingdom.

More on this piece of garbage here.

* Habash was a Marxist guerrilla leader who was called a terrorist by Israel and hailed by Palestinians as a patriot.

* He stepped down as leader of the group in 2000, handing over to Abu Ali Mustafa, who was killed by Israel in 2001 during a Palestinian uprising.

* In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the PFLP carried out airline hijackings and kidnappings to highlight the Palestinian struggle. In September 1970, the PFLP hijacked and destroyed three Western airliners simultaneously, leading Jordan's King Hussein to crack down on the guerrillas.

* Habash -- often called The Doctor out of respect -- and other leaders of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), then moved to Beirut where he lived until Israel's 1982 invasion to root out the Palestinians. He then moved to Syria.

Sadly, he didn't suffer long.

"He had a severe heart attack and he died instantly," said Leila Khaled, a member of the Palestine National Council and a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which Habash founded.

Khaled spoke by telephone from Jordan Hospital in Amman, where she said Habash died at 8:15 p.m. Saturday.

The miscreant will be honored with three days of mourning.

(IsraelNN.com) PFLP founder George Habash died at age 83 in his home in Amman. His terror gang massacred dozens of Israeli adults, children and babies, assassinated Minister Ze'evi and plotted to kill Rabbi Ovadya Yosef.

PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced three days of mourning following the death of George Habash, the founder of terror gang PFLP. All PLO flags will be at half mast and there will be an official "house of mourning" in Abba's Ramallah office.

More here on his history of terror, with more at this Wikipedia page.

Former Guests at Club Gitmo Want Cash and an Apology

These guys should probably hold out until President Rodham is sworn in. She'll probably invite them over to the White House for coffee.

A group of Sudanese released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay demanded cash payouts and an apology from the United States on Saturday, for mental and physical torture suffered during years spent in jail there.

"We have asked for compensation and an apology," aid worker Adil Hassan Hamad told a conference in Khartoum, which was organized by local rights groups to demand the release of seven Sudanese still held at Guantanamo Bay.

Hamad, freed just over one month ago, wore orange overalls like those worn by detainees in the U.S. prison camp. He was working with refugees when arrested in Pakistan in 2002 and taken to Afghanistan and then the U.S. camp in Cuba.

Nice of Reuters to simply regurgitate his claims. Nothing like investigative journalism.

He said his U.S. lawyer would seek compensation in the U.S. courts. One of Hamad's daughters died during his detention because his wife could not afford medical treatment. Two other inmates were also seeking compensation, he said.

Washington has designated Guantanamo prisoners, who were mainly seized in Afghanistan after the 2001 U.S. invasion, as "enemy combatants" and denied them prisoner-of-war status that would guarantee them certain rights under international law.

Many attending the Khartoum conference broke down in tears when addressed by the wife of al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Hajj, the most high-profile of the around 300 detainees still in the prison on the Caribbean island.

He has been on hunger strike for 400 days but is force fed twice a day in a manner his lawyer told the conference was tantamount to torture.

OK, so now feeding someone is torture?

Sure.

His wife Aygol Ismailova, who is from Azerbaijan, wept as she told the gathering how Hajj has been urinating blood and was suffering from other health problems.

"His son Mohamed always asks me: 'Where is my father, who took him? What is prison? What do they do there?' And I don't know how to answer him," Ismailova told Reuters.

Maybe you can tell little Mohamed his father is a terrorist posing as a journalist. That would be a start.

"Do people know that I have no way to contact my husband other than letters that reach him late and are censored? For more than six years I've not heard his voice, not seen him," she said. "This is torture."

The tales of woe continue. Shockingly, other means of torture include making someone stand up for a period of time.

Oh, the humanity.

Hamad and another former Guantanamo detainee set up mock prison cells to show those attending the conference the cramped conditions in which they were held.

"Often they'd leave prisoners tied up in very, very cold rooms and refuse to allow them to go to the bathroom so they'd wet themselves."

"I was beaten, made to stand for long periods of time, deprived of sleep for three nights," Hamad said of his treatment by the U.S. army in Afghanistan before he was moved to Cuba.

Of course, he has no evidence of such claims, but why should that deter Reuters from reporting this as fact?

No doubt the left will lap up this nonsense as well.

Happy Anniversary, Slick

Ten years ago today.

Good Lord, we're still saddled with this moron.

Tomorrow we mark the tenth anniversary of another fantastic lie.



UPDATE: Gateway Pundit has a nostalgic look back.

Celebrity Nitwit: I'm in Love With Obama

Isn't this cute, a Hollywood actress falls in love with Barry O.

How special.

NEW YORK - Scarlett Johansson returned from the Persian Gulf with a whole lot of soldiers' trinkets and a delusion of her own engagement — to Barack Obama.

"I am engaged ... to Barack Obama," Johansson joked in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. "My heart belongs to Barack, and that is who I am currently, finally, engaged to. Yes."

Huh?

Johansson, who showed her support for the Democratic presidential candidate at the Iowa caucus earlier this month, was really just deflecting a question about rumors she might be engaged (to actor-beau Ryan Reynolds).

The 23-year-old actress talked about the warm welcome she received while visiting troops stationed in the Persian Gulf last week. Johansson dropped by U.S. bases in Kuwait on Jan. 17 and Jan. 18 as part of a USO tour in which she met about 3,500 men and women in uniform.

"Everybody that I met there was so incredibly friendly and polite and genuine and generous," she said. "They were so, so sweet. I mean, I was just amazed."

Yes, I'm sure they were impressed by your, um, acting skills. Yeah, that's it.

Is this the saviour of the Republican party?

That man is Jerry Curry. He just announced his bid for president in Oklahoma and I saw him interviewed on Fox and Friends this morning. He is a retired general and claims to be the conservative answer Republicans are looking for. Is this the candidate we have been looking for? Check out this 6 1/2 minute video that appears to be a tv interview, unfortunately I don't when this was done.

He wasted no time firing some shots across the bow of the Democrat front runners either.

He said owing to Clinton's "cowardly act" of calling Gen. David Petraeus a liar without having a private conversation with him is why she is not fit to hold the presidency.
"I believe she can never successfully fulfill the duties of Commander-in-Chief," Curry said. "Not because she is a woman. I support women in leadership. Rather because of her example in dealing with our military."
Curry said Obama may be a good president 10 years from now, but in the mean time he would have to use the office of president as a training ground.
"It would be like trying to fly a plane while reading the instruction manual," Curry said.

He actually started campaigning back on Jan 9th.
Here is his official web site CurryForAmerica.com

At Play In The Fields Of al-Gore

New green taxes for 'gas-guzzling' cars
Motorists face having to pay new green taxes as ministers step up their war on "gas-guzzling" cars.

The Government wants to get people out of high-emissions vehicles by making them more expensive, while also cutting the cost of driving for more environmentally-friendly options.

Two recently published reports commissioned by the Department for Transport examine the impact of raising the cost of buying the most polluting cars, and of increasing running costs by raising road tax or fuel prices.

Let's be honest. The increase in running costs will come about by raising the road tax and fuel prices.

Labour's plans, although not as advanced, echo those announced by the Tories last year. David Cameron's advisors drafted a series of "green supertaxes" which would add as much as £3,000 (US$5,940.89) in tax to the showroom price of bigger cars.

The first detailed report, by Cambridge Econometrics, sought to identify policies that "might be used to reduce CO2 emissions from road transport."

It said its findings confirmed "the prior beliefs of the DfT", that people buying cars in the middle tax bands were most likely to be affected by small changes in both purchase price and running costs.

A £3,000 'green supertax' would be a small change in the purchase price. rofl

According to the report, these drivers are most likely to choose more environmentally friendly cars next time they go into the showroom.

This was reinforced by a second study, by the Economics for the Environment Consultancy, which examined what would happen if only 1 per cent was added to the showroom price of new cars.

The economists found the biggest impact on carbon dioxide emissions came when prices were hiked up for cars in the middle of the market, between 141 grams CO2 per kilometre and 225.

In this range - encompassing a Ford Fiesta 1.4 to a Ford Focus 2.5 - the change in price would see large numbers of motorists buying greener cars.

The DfT said the studies were "routine research" without any policy recommendations.

But the willingness of the DfT to commission them is significant, given that Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, has ordered his own report on how motorists can be encouraged to chose greener cars.

That study, from Professor Julia King, vice-chancellor of Aston University, is due to be presented before the next budget.

Last night the Tories welcomed the Government's readiness to adopt green motoring taxes.

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But the AA voiced alarm at the prospect of yet more motoring taxes.

"National and local government are coming up with yet more schemes which are financially punitive for car owners and their families," said a spokesman.

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Read it all at The Telegraph

The American Left salivates.

Egypt's New Citizens?

Gazans Breach Egyptian Border Again
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas-backed militants driving bulldozers knocked down more fortifications Friday along the Gaza-Egypt border - a brazen challenge to Egyptian riot police, who abandoned their positions after attempting to reseal the frontier using human chains, dogs and water cannons.

Militants in black clothing, some of them masked, stood atop a bulldozer as it knocked down concrete slabs under the watchful eyes of Hamas security officials, who turned a blind eye and were later seen patrolling on the Egyptian side of the border.

Thousands of Palestinians flooded into Egypt, pushing through several openings as Egyptian troops retreated to their bases on the other side of the border. Palestinians positioned cranes next to the border and lifted crates of supplies into Gaza, including camels and cows.

Hamas, after blasting open the border wall earlier in the week, offered further proof Friday that it simply cannot be ignored - driving home in no uncertain terms that a high price will be paid by anyone who seeks to shape Gaza's border arrangements without the militants' consent.

The day's events also underscored a great dilemma faced by Egypt: if it acts forcefully against the Gazans, it could anger its own people, who are sympathetic to the Palestinians' plight. But if it does nothing, it risks infiltration by Islamic militants.

Earlier Friday, Hamas gunmen fanned out along the Gaza side of the border, attempting to create order. For the first time since the border wall was torn down in a series of blasts on Wednesday, Gaza's Hamas rulers deployed their most elite forces to contain the rowdy crowd.

Hamas is clearly seeking to flex its muscles ahead of a potential new border agreement with Egypt that the militants hope will help end a 2-year-old blockade imposed by Israel and the West.

The group called for a three-way meeting among Hamas, Egypt and the Fatah movement of President Mahmoud Abbas to try to come up with a new border arrangement for Gaza.

"If the leadership in Ramallah refuses this call, we will not stand idle until the siege overruns life in Gaza," Hamas said in a statement.

The border breach provided a significant popularity boost to Hamas, which can claim it successfully broke through the closure that has deprived the coastal strip of normal trade and commerce.

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Read it all at AP News/MyWay

Certain people in the State Department are trying to make sense of it all.

At least they have their priorities right.

Previously: Israel to Egypt: Take Gaza, It's Yours and Border Crisis Deepens