Remember The Maine!
On this date in 1898, the USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor.
"You may fire when you are ready Gridley."
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On this date in 1898, the USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor.
"You may fire when you are ready Gridley."
Andrew Lorenz-Strait is now the official White House advocate for the "concerns" of illegal aliens.
Yes, even the murderous, criminal ones. They have a friend in Barack Obama.
Presumably the position arose out of the need for the White House to keep intervening with INS on behalf of Obama's various "undocumented" relatives. He figured what the hey, what's good for Uncle Omar and Auntie Zeituni is gotta be good for sucking up a few more votes from the Aztlan-R-Us crowd.
And if you think about it, hiring this guy does mean that Barry did in fact create a job this week, so I assume Jay Carney will spin that angle for all its worth. Pandering to illegal aliens, it's good for America!
The Oval Office on the job training program is paying off?
Appearing on the Today Show this morning, Barry patted himself on the back.
During an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s “Today” show, President Obama said that he gets “better as time goes on” at his job...
Time's up Sport.
I bet you thought the big winners from Facebook's IPO would be Mark Zuckerberg and his top lieutenants. Hah! Their individual hauls are gonna be peanuts compared to what the State of California expects to collect in taxes on the newly minted millionaires' windfalls.
Google's IPO saw a $7 Billion influx of cash into California's coffers. California's politicians promptly spent $9.5 billion of it. If you're thinking that the math there doesn't exactly work out right, you're not alone. But you're also not a Democrat.
Facebook's IPO promises to be bigger.
And California is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. They'll be out of cash by mid-March.
Unless they borrow against future tax revenues, predicated on Facebook's IPO.
Already, interest groups and lobbyists are forming thick droves around state legislators, even when they go to the bathroom, to urge them to fund worthwhile programs and ridiculous boondoggles alike. After years of unpopular, nay detested budget cuts, pressures are immense from all sides to shovel money this way and that way before any of it has even arrived and plow it not only into one-time projects, but into ongoing programs that will then run out of money.
Let this be a lesson to anyone who says raising taxes is the only way to cure our national deficit. For every dollar of new revenue the government will find a way to spend $1.50. Deficit reduction is for suckers.
During a Google+ townhall, Barry promised a woman he'd help find her husband a job.
The guy is a semiconductor engineer. The president said the fact he couldn't find work was "interesting."
During the back and forth between Obama and the wife of an unemployed engineer, Obama asked for his resume.
"Can I ask you what kind of engineer your husband is?," Obama said to the wife of the unemployed engineer. "He's a semiconductor engineer," she responded. "It is interesting to me -- and I meant what I said if your send me your husband's resume, I'd be interested in finding out exactly what's happening right there because the word that we're getting is that somebody in that type of high-tech field, that kind of engineer, should be able to find something right away.
Solyndra is hiring! Isn't it?
I think everyone should sent Barry their resume - President@whitehouse.gov - and let's see if our Recruiter In Chief can put America back to work, one unemployed engineer at a time.
Who trains these Keystone Kops?
The Jersey City police officer who accidentally shot himself during a fugitive apprehension in Elizabeth Thursday night was released from the hospital a few hours after the incident, a Jersey City police spokesman said this morning.
Officer Jesse Soto, 38, is assigned to a Hudson County task force unit that in turn forms part of the federal agency’s Regional Fugitive Task Force, comprised of federal, state, county and local police personnel.
He was assisting in the arrest of a female fugitive inside a North Broad Street residential building when his service weapon accidentally discharged shortly after 10 p.m., said Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Schroeder.
A single bullet “came in and out of his abdomen,” Martinez said. “It didn’t hit any vital organs.”
Yeah, it takes Extra Special training to be able to shoot yourself in the belly. No wonder it isn't available to us mere mortals.
That's some mighty fine police work there Lou.
Well, yeah:
U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia has a simple solution for people who don't like all the political advertisements unleashed by the court's decision two years ago that ended limits on corporate contributions in political campaigns -- change the channel or turn off the TV.
"I don't care who is doing the speech -- the more the merrier," Scalia said. "People are not stupid. If they don't like it, they'll shut it off."
Warren Buffett still wants the government to raise his taxes. And he's finally acknowledging our calls for him to "write a check." His response?
Buffett has pledged to match 1 for 1 all such voluntary contributions made by Republican members of Congress. “And I’ll even go 3 for 1 for McConnell,” he says.
Don't break your arm patting youself on the back there Warren.
It's your idea to pay more taxes. So please, with all due respect, you go first.
What's that? You don't want to lead the way? Of course not, you're just another limousine liberal worried the country will run out of other people's money.
Billions of dollars for high-tech bomb detecting equipment and TSA is confounded by a jar.
I wanted to make it clear that this wasn’t your everyday, run-of-the-mill cupcake. If you’re not familiar with it, we have a policy directly related to the UK liquid bomb plot of 2006 called 3-1-1 that limits the amount of liquids, gels and aerosols you can bring in your carry-on luggage. Icing falls under the “gel” category. As you can see from the picture, unlike a thin layer of icing that resides on the top of most cupcakes, this cupcake had a thick layer of icing inside a jar.
It's a dessert topping! It's plastic explosive! You're both right!
C'mon TSA, the security theater farce is getting long in the tooth.
Obama's re-election comes first, and if Loose Lips Sink Ships? So what!
New Yorkers celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden when the terrorist mastermind behind 9/11 was killed in an operation led by the United States last May.
But now, investigators are probing whether the Obama administration divulged too many details of the secret raid on to Hollywood filmmakers.
Rep. Peter King, who heads the House Homeland Security Committee, has questioned how much information was shared about the U.S. special operations mission in Pakistan that killed the al-Qaeda leader.
King has expressed worries about the administration’s cooperation with Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and Kathryn Bigelow, director of the Oscar-winning picture “The Hurt Locker,” who is working on a movie about the hunt for bin Laden.
In August King wrote the inspectors general of the Pentagon and CIA noting a New York Times column saying that Sony and Bigelow had been given “top-level access to the most classified mission in history.”
In his letter, King said that leaks of classified information related to the bin Laden raid had already resulted in the arrests of Pakistanis believed by Pakistan authorities to have assisted the CIA.
Dead Pakistanis can't vote (well, except in Chicago..) so who cares, right?
