May 2009
75 posts
When Democrats derailed a GOP Latino nominee |... →
I urge everyone to read this. I copied and pasted an excerpt but the entire thing is worth quoting. The way the Democrats treated Estrada was appalling. To this day it has gone unnoticed and I don’t quite understand why.
They had nothing to go after on Estrada, and their line of attack lied on a series of classified memos he wrote while working at the Office of the Solicitor General. There...
Kitty Daisy & Lewis - Mean Son Of A Gun
I’m...
First President in US History to Have Voted to... →
Tapper’s headline says it all. According to Obama, if you do what he did 3 years ago then you’re engaging in “political posturing and ideological brinksmanship.” Love it.
Multiracial people become fastest growing US group... →
Multiracial Americans have become the fastest growing demographic group, wielding an impact on minority growth that challenges traditional notions of race.
The number of multiracial people rose 3.4 percent last year to about 5.2 million, according to the latest census estimates. First given the option in 2000, Americans who check more than one box for race on census surveys have jumped by 33...
Stem cell breakthrough gets closer to the clinic... →
The quest for versatile, grow-in-a-dish transplant tissue took a step towards clinical use Thursday when researchers announced they have found a safe way to transform skin cells into stem cells.
Researchers say the method is so promising they hope to apply for approval to begin clinic trials by the middle of next year.
“This is the first safe method of generating patient specific stem...
“Yes. [Sonia Sotomayor] does have a very impressive background. Academic...”
– Ann Coulter
I’m not the biggest Coulter fan but she absolutely nails it with this one. It’s been a little over a day and I’m already sick and tired of left-wingers exploiting this nomination as some sort of vindication of their smug self-righteousness. Not surprisingly, the most...
“…it’s difficult to understand how those who harp about the importance of...”
– David Harsanyi, a Denver Post columnist who changed his views on abortion. (h/t hilker) (via sds)
Thanks for ruining this day for me, Barack.
Today President Obama nominated the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court. Not only a Hispanic but a fellow Puerto Rican. Under the right circumstances I would be bursting with joy. Can you imagine that? A Boricua Supreme Court Justice? Heck yes!
But my longing for celebration is quickly curtailed by the realization that this nomination was purely political in nature. There is no honest intent here...
“I would hope that a wise White man with the richness of his experiences would...”
– Some racist White dude
Wanna see something pretty magical? Switch “White man” and “Latina woman” and it’s suddenly not racist!
Obama’s Sotomayor Nomination: Identity Politics... →
In picking Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to him more than merit.
Judge Sotomayor is not one of the leading lights of the federal judiciary and would not even have been on the shortlist if she were not Hispanic.
She has a mixed reputation, with a questionable temperament and no particularly important opinions in over 10 years on the Second Circuit....
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-5-24) →
Hank Snow (4)
The Carter Family (4)
Bob Wills (4)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (4)
Webb Pierce (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“For all his championing of nuance, Obama comes back to one source for every...”
– Rich Lowry - President Above-It-All
WatchAstronauts Drink Up as Space Station Recycles Urine to Water (via Breitbart.tv)
Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air. They said “cheers,” clicked drinking bags and toasted NASA workers on the ground who were sipping their own version of...
Light cigarettes duped smokers: US court (AFP) →
A US federal appeals court Friday ruled the tobacco industry had deceived smokers by labeling some cigarettes as “light” when they posed just as high a health risk as other brands.
The appeals court confirmed a ruling by a lower court in August 2006 that tobacco companies lied for years about the dangerous effects of such cigarettes.
And it upheld the earlier decision that the...
“Mr. Obama has said he’s read the [memos that discuss the results of...”
– The Other Interrogation Memos - WSJ.com
Senate backs $91.3 billion Iraq, Afghan war bill... →
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a $91.3 billion measure sought by President Barack Obama to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The measure meets some of Obama’s key priorities but leaves out funding to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“The president insisted in his speech that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and...”
– The Buck Stops Elsewhere by The Editors on National Review Online
Leonardo DiCaprio takes singing lessons to play... →
Insiders revealed director chum MARTIN SCORSESE has put DiCaprio at the top of his list to play Sinatra.
But Scorsese is insisting the actor does it HIS way — by mastering the Rat Pack legend’s famous tones.
A source confirmed: “Leo has hired a top vocal coach to get him sounding like Sinatra. He is a massive fan of the singer and has always wanted to play him. He would be sick to miss out on...
GPS system 'close to breakdown': Network of... →
The satellites are overseen by the US Air Force, which has maintained the GPS network since the early 1990s. According to a study by the US government accountability office (GAO), mismanagement and a lack of investment means that some of the crucial GPS satellites could begin to fail as early as next year.
“For all the controversy surrounding his invitation, President Obama’s...”
– Obama’s Case Against Obama, Yuval Levin, National Review Online (via jlanctot)
Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says... →
Members of Congress have been told in confidential briefings that Pakistan is rapidly adding to its nuclear arsenal even while racked by insurgency, raising questions on Capitol Hill about whether billions of dollars in proposed military aid might be diverted to Pakistan’s nuclear program.
Dems red-faced over veteran imposter - The Denver... →
And the mostly Democratic candidates he supported — looking for credibility on veterans issues and the war — lapped it up appreciatively.
Now, politicians are dealing with news that the man they believed to be a former Marine and war veteran wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb, in fact, never served in the military — but did spend time in a mental hospital.
Many of the candidates he supported...
Obama's Top Advisor Suggests First Family Name Dog... →
Senior Advisor to the president and former campaign consultant David Axelrod was the special guest on National Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” which made a road trip to George Washington University in the nation’s capital for an episode that will air this weekend.
When Axelrod was asked if he had weighed in on the Obama family’s dog choice, he answered, “I was only...
“We expected the study to show an increase in obesity in communities with a...”
– Does Walmart Make You Skinny? - Page 1 - The Daily Beast (via jeffmiller) (via squashed)
Take that, anti-corporate hippies! I love me some Wal-Mart. Too bad there’s not one in Brooklyn.
Germany drags eurozone faster into slump (FT.com) →
The recession in the eurozone intensified markedly in the first quarter, dragged down by an almost 4 per cent contraction in the German economy.
Gross domestic product in the 16-country region fell by a much larger-than-expected 2.5 per cent in the period – outpacing the US slowdown – according to official data released on Friday. The contraction deepened what was already the worst recession in...
“…these pictures are the result of investigations into unsanctioned...”
– Squashed: Should Obama release the torture investigation photographs?
Also, those who took part in the abuse have already been prosecuted and sentenced. You break the law, you serve the time, period. As with any big organization, there’s bound to be a few bad apples. You get rid of these bad...
Schumer then and Schumer now
With all the attention currently focused on Nancy Pelosi and her knowledge about interrogation techniques, some other fun examples of Democrat sanctimony and hypocrisy are being missed. Following in the good ol’ Democrat tradition of flippity-flip flopping on stances depending on possible political gain at any given time, Senator Chuck Schumer shows all them kids how it’s really done.
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“[Wanda Sykes] recently proclaimed during the California Prop. 8 debate that...”
– Ben Shapiro » Wanda Sykes’ Gutless Performance
Rock-climbing coming to Boerum Hill →
The old Daily News garage on 3rd Avenue and Degraw Street is being turned into Brooklyn Boulders, a rock-climbing gym that will feature a climbable model of the Brooklyn Bride. It’s set to open in July.
White House: Budget deficit to top $1.8 trillion... →
With the economy performing worse than hoped, revised White House figures point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing almost 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year.
The deficit for the current budget year will rise by $89 billion to above $1.8 trillion — about four times the record set just last year. The unprecedented red ink flows from the deep recession, the Wall...
“Imagine if a comedian “joked” that Obama was a terrorist who was...”
– Toby Harnden - Not funny: Barack Obama laughs at Wanda Sykes “joke” about wanting Rush Limbaugh dead
Another example of leftist hate speech →
(via nomosshere)