Friday, February 26, 2010
Obama's Low Blow on McCain
Yesterday at the Healthcare Summit, Obama got upset when McCain called him out on how the Healthcare bill was written up and on what's in it. The classy president then made this remark.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
It's A Trap!
The HealthCare Reform Summit is being held today.
Watch it live here.
This is all a big ruse to show that the Democrats are the bipartisan party and the Republicans are not.
If The Democrats want bipartisanship, why not allow the Republicans to put what they want about Tort law in the bill and insurance companies being able to compete across state lines? This would, by all accounts, bring costs down and allow most of those who want health care to be able to afford it.
Obama won't cede any part of his agenda and neither will the Democrats. When the Republicans won't agree to any of their budget busting, tax hiking agenda, they will be labeled the "NO Party" in hopes that the American people will not vote Republicans into office in November.
Watch it live here.
This is all a big ruse to show that the Democrats are the bipartisan party and the Republicans are not.
If The Democrats want bipartisanship, why not allow the Republicans to put what they want about Tort law in the bill and insurance companies being able to compete across state lines? This would, by all accounts, bring costs down and allow most of those who want health care to be able to afford it.
Obama won't cede any part of his agenda and neither will the Democrats. When the Republicans won't agree to any of their budget busting, tax hiking agenda, they will be labeled the "NO Party" in hopes that the American people will not vote Republicans into office in November.
From The Jawa Report.
Hamas Founder's Son Was Israeli Spy...Doh!
Some highlights from the article:
The son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping to prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged yesterday.
Codenamed the “Green Prince” by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, supplied key intelligence almost daily from 1996. He tracked down suicide bombers and their handlers from his father’s organisation, the Haaretz newspaper said.
Information supplied by him led to the arrests of some of the most- wanted men by Israeli forces...
Mr. Yousef is a convert to Christianity.
The son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping to prevent dozens of Islamist suicide bombers from finding their targets, it emerged yesterday.
Codenamed the “Green Prince” by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of the Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, supplied key intelligence almost daily from 1996. He tracked down suicide bombers and their handlers from his father’s organisation, the Haaretz newspaper said.
Information supplied by him led to the arrests of some of the most- wanted men by Israeli forces...
Mr. Yousef is a convert to Christianity.
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WHAT PART OF 'PARTY OF NO' DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
February 24, 2010
Inasmuch as Obamacare has a snowball's chance in hell of passing (but did you see how much snow they got in hell last week?), everyone is wondering what President Obama is up to by calling Republicans to a televised Reykjavik summit this week to discuss socializing health care.
At least they served beer at the last White House summit this stupid and pointless.
If the president is serious about passing nationalized health care, he ought to be meeting with the Democrats, not the Republicans.
Republicans can't stop the Democrats from socializing health care: They are a tiny minority party in both the House and the Senate. (Note to America: You might want to keep this in mind next time you go to the polls.)
As the Democratic base has been hysterically pointing out, both the House and the Senate have already passed national health care bills. Either body could vote for the other's bill, and -- presto! -- Obama would have a national health care bill, replete with death panels, abortion coverage and lots and lots of new government commissions!
Sadly, as the president's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has noted, the Democratic base is "@#$%^ retarded."
The reason massive Democratic majorities in Congress aren't enough to pass socialist health care is AMERICANS DON'T WANT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!
In fact, you might say that the nation is in a boiling cauldron of rage against it. Consequently, a lot of Democrats are suddenly having second thoughts about vast new government commissions regulating every aspect of Americans' medical care.
Obama isn't stupid -- he's not seriously trying to get a health care bill passed. The whole purpose of this public "summit" with the minority party is to muddy up the Republicans before the November elections. You know, the elections Democrats are going to lose because of this whole health care thing.
Right now, Americans are hopping mad, swinging a stick and hoping to hit anyone who so much as thinks about nationalizing health care.
If they could, Americans would cut the power to the Capitol, throw everyone out and try to deport them. (Whereas I say: Anyone in Washington, D.C., who can produce an original copy of a valid U.S. birth certificate should be allowed to stay.)
But the Democrats think it's a good strategy to call the Republicans "The Party of No." When it comes to Obamacare, Americans don't want a party of "No," they want a party of "Hell, No!" or, as Rahm Emanuel might say, "*&^%$#@ No!"
It's as if the patient has a minor fever and the Democrats (as doctor in this example) want to cut off his arms and legs. The Republicans want to give the patient two aspirin. "Compromise" means the Republicans agree to amputate only one arm and one leg.
Complaining that Republicans are "obstructionists" is not a damaging charge when most Americans are dying to obstruct the Democrats with a 2-by-4. While you're at it, Democrats, why not call the GOP the "Party of Brave Patriots"?
So Obama's sole objective at the "summit" is to hoodwink Republicans into agreeing with some of his wildly unpopular ideas on national TV. If this were a reality show on NBC, it would be called, "Dateline: To Catch a R.I.N.O."
This shouldn't be hard, inasmuch as he will be talking to elected Republicans. About a third of them were enthusiastically engaging in "bipartisanship" on Obamacare last year -- Chuck Grassley, you know who you are! (That's better than Lindsey Graham, who still wants to compromise.)
And then the American people spoke up.
In town halls and tea parties across the nation, Obama lost the argument with Americans. So now he wants a debating partner who will be less challenging: elected Republicans.
If Republicans were smart, they'd shock the world by sending in one of their most appealing members of Congress, who can speak clearly on health care -- Sen. Jon Kyl, Rep. Steve King or Rep. Ron Paul.
Actually, if the Republicans were really smart, they'd send in 14-year-old Jonathan Krohn, who understands the free market better than most people in Washington. Of course, so does my houseplant.
There are other important points Republicans cannot raise often enough -- such as putting scuzzy medical malpractice lawyers like John Edwards out of business. OK, that wasn't fair: Even trial lawyers are almost never as scuzzy as John Edwards. We want to put them all out of business.
But there's really only one idea the Republicans must cling to -- like they're clinging to their guns and religion! -- in order to resist agreeing to something moronic and losing their advantage as Americans' only allies in Washington.
Please, Republicans, remember the free market -- the same free market that gave us cheap cell phones, computers, flat-screen TVs, and stylish, affordable eyeglasses in about an hour.
Congress needs to outlaw state and federal mandates on insurance companies and allow interstate competition in health insurance.
The end.
Love, the American People.
February 24, 2010
Inasmuch as Obamacare has a snowball's chance in hell of passing (but did you see how much snow they got in hell last week?), everyone is wondering what President Obama is up to by calling Republicans to a televised Reykjavik summit this week to discuss socializing health care.
At least they served beer at the last White House summit this stupid and pointless.
If the president is serious about passing nationalized health care, he ought to be meeting with the Democrats, not the Republicans.
Republicans can't stop the Democrats from socializing health care: They are a tiny minority party in both the House and the Senate. (Note to America: You might want to keep this in mind next time you go to the polls.)
As the Democratic base has been hysterically pointing out, both the House and the Senate have already passed national health care bills. Either body could vote for the other's bill, and -- presto! -- Obama would have a national health care bill, replete with death panels, abortion coverage and lots and lots of new government commissions!
Sadly, as the president's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has noted, the Democratic base is "@#$%^ retarded."
The reason massive Democratic majorities in Congress aren't enough to pass socialist health care is AMERICANS DON'T WANT SOCIALIZED MEDICINE!
In fact, you might say that the nation is in a boiling cauldron of rage against it. Consequently, a lot of Democrats are suddenly having second thoughts about vast new government commissions regulating every aspect of Americans' medical care.
Obama isn't stupid -- he's not seriously trying to get a health care bill passed. The whole purpose of this public "summit" with the minority party is to muddy up the Republicans before the November elections. You know, the elections Democrats are going to lose because of this whole health care thing.
Right now, Americans are hopping mad, swinging a stick and hoping to hit anyone who so much as thinks about nationalizing health care.
If they could, Americans would cut the power to the Capitol, throw everyone out and try to deport them. (Whereas I say: Anyone in Washington, D.C., who can produce an original copy of a valid U.S. birth certificate should be allowed to stay.)
But the Democrats think it's a good strategy to call the Republicans "The Party of No." When it comes to Obamacare, Americans don't want a party of "No," they want a party of "Hell, No!" or, as Rahm Emanuel might say, "*&^%$#@ No!"
It's as if the patient has a minor fever and the Democrats (as doctor in this example) want to cut off his arms and legs. The Republicans want to give the patient two aspirin. "Compromise" means the Republicans agree to amputate only one arm and one leg.
Complaining that Republicans are "obstructionists" is not a damaging charge when most Americans are dying to obstruct the Democrats with a 2-by-4. While you're at it, Democrats, why not call the GOP the "Party of Brave Patriots"?
So Obama's sole objective at the "summit" is to hoodwink Republicans into agreeing with some of his wildly unpopular ideas on national TV. If this were a reality show on NBC, it would be called, "Dateline: To Catch a R.I.N.O."
This shouldn't be hard, inasmuch as he will be talking to elected Republicans. About a third of them were enthusiastically engaging in "bipartisanship" on Obamacare last year -- Chuck Grassley, you know who you are! (That's better than Lindsey Graham, who still wants to compromise.)
And then the American people spoke up.
In town halls and tea parties across the nation, Obama lost the argument with Americans. So now he wants a debating partner who will be less challenging: elected Republicans.
If Republicans were smart, they'd shock the world by sending in one of their most appealing members of Congress, who can speak clearly on health care -- Sen. Jon Kyl, Rep. Steve King or Rep. Ron Paul.
Actually, if the Republicans were really smart, they'd send in 14-year-old Jonathan Krohn, who understands the free market better than most people in Washington. Of course, so does my houseplant.
There are other important points Republicans cannot raise often enough -- such as putting scuzzy medical malpractice lawyers like John Edwards out of business. OK, that wasn't fair: Even trial lawyers are almost never as scuzzy as John Edwards. We want to put them all out of business.
But there's really only one idea the Republicans must cling to -- like they're clinging to their guns and religion! -- in order to resist agreeing to something moronic and losing their advantage as Americans' only allies in Washington.
Please, Republicans, remember the free market -- the same free market that gave us cheap cell phones, computers, flat-screen TVs, and stylish, affordable eyeglasses in about an hour.
Congress needs to outlaw state and federal mandates on insurance companies and allow interstate competition in health insurance.
The end.
Love, the American People.
No Death Penalty for Muslims?
In Peoria, Arizona a while back, Faleh Almaleki got into his car and ran over his daughter and his daughter's boyfriend's mother and fled the scene. His daughter, Noor, died shortly after.
The father is now being tried and his lawyer, Billy Little, has requested that he not receive the death penalty.
The County Attorney's office decided not to seek the death penalty but said that Little had...uh...little to do with the decision.
Said County Attorney Office spokesman Mike Scerbo. "As is in all first degree murder cases, the decision on whether to seek the death penalty is made on a case by case basis. Cultural considerations played no part in the decision not to seek the death penalty."
We have gotten so PC toward Islam and Muslims that we aren't even going to prescribe the death penalty to Muslims who commit premeditated murder.
This was an honor killing. These are common in the Middle Eastern Muslim world. In some Middle Eastern countries there is no penalty for one who commits an honor killing.
Now it looks as if at least one aspect of Middle Eastern Sharia has taken a place in the American Judicial system. This case will be looked to as precedent for future cases.
The father is now being tried and his lawyer, Billy Little, has requested that he not receive the death penalty.
The County Attorney's office decided not to seek the death penalty but said that Little had...uh...little to do with the decision.
Said County Attorney Office spokesman Mike Scerbo. "As is in all first degree murder cases, the decision on whether to seek the death penalty is made on a case by case basis. Cultural considerations played no part in the decision not to seek the death penalty."
We have gotten so PC toward Islam and Muslims that we aren't even going to prescribe the death penalty to Muslims who commit premeditated murder.
This was an honor killing. These are common in the Middle Eastern Muslim world. In some Middle Eastern countries there is no penalty for one who commits an honor killing.
Now it looks as if at least one aspect of Middle Eastern Sharia has taken a place in the American Judicial system. This case will be looked to as precedent for future cases.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Flashback
Democrats in this video condemn the Nuclear Option to pass HELLthcare as not constitutional and going against what the Framers stood for.
Now years later when the Democrats are in control of Congress Harry Reid shows his hypocrisy.
Obama wants to use it.
Grayson wants to use it.
Rangel wants to use it.
and on and on.
This is part of the reason Congress' approval rating is at 10%.
Now years later when the Democrats are in control of Congress Harry Reid shows his hypocrisy.
Obama wants to use it.
Grayson wants to use it.
Rangel wants to use it.
and on and on.
This is part of the reason Congress' approval rating is at 10%.
The Dalai Lama Shuffled Out the Back Door after Visit to the White House
President Obama finally got around to meeting with the Dalai Lama this week. Shortly after the private meeting the Dalai Lama was ushered out the back door. Watch out for that garbage.
The private meeting with no joint press conference didn't come as a huge shock since Obama is doing his best to appease China who owns a huge chunk of our debt and who has staked their claim on Tibet, but to send him out the back door afterward is pretty low. The White House is always swarming with reporters, did he think that someone wasn't going to get a shot of him leaving? All this did was hurt relations with China and Tibet.
The private meeting with no joint press conference didn't come as a huge shock since Obama is doing his best to appease China who owns a huge chunk of our debt and who has staked their claim on Tibet, but to send him out the back door afterward is pretty low. The White House is always swarming with reporters, did he think that someone wasn't going to get a shot of him leaving? All this did was hurt relations with China and Tibet.
MDA Changes Logo
Our Missile Defense Agency recently changed their logo. It used to look like this:
Now it looks like this:
What was wrong with the old one is what I wanna know.
I'm not sure who was behind the change but the new logo sure does remind me of another logo:
Some are even saying that it is a combination of the Obama logo and this one:
I can see how they both, when put together, resemble the new MDA logo, but I think that it was only by chance that the logo looks a bit like the Star and Crescent.
How Low Can You Go?
Rasmussen reports that Congress now has a 10% approval rating.
Is it a shock? It's jobs and the economy that people are worrying about yet all Congress ever talks about is HELLthcare.
Is it a shock? It's jobs and the economy that people are worrying about yet all Congress ever talks about is HELLthcare.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Betrayal!
Scott Brown MA (R) votes for Harry Reid's "Jobs" bill.
Didn't Brown say that the Senate seat in MA was "the people's seat"? Why then is he voting for a bill that people across the United States and even in MA. don't want passes?
I'm upset that this RINO did this but not surprised.
Didn't Brown say that the Senate seat in MA was "the people's seat"? Why then is he voting for a bill that people across the United States and even in MA. don't want passes?
I'm upset that this RINO did this but not surprised.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Mayor Goodman at it Again
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Trump Wants Gore's Nobel Peace Prize Stripped
That's right. He said it right here.
Billionaire real estate tycoon Donald Trump wants Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize stripped from the Global Warmingist-in-Chief.
"With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back, " Trump recently told members of his Westchester, New York, country club according to the New York Post.
The Post continued (h/t Polijam):
I guess there weren't any liberal media members there.
While we're at it let's take it from former President Jimmy Carter. And Yasser Arafat. And the current President.
Billionaire real estate tycoon Donald Trump wants Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize stripped from the Global Warmingist-in-Chief.
"With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back, " Trump recently told members of his Westchester, New York, country club according to the New York Post.
The Post continued (h/t Polijam):
"Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn't care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America's stupidity."According to the Post, the crowd of 500 stood and applauded.
I guess there weren't any liberal media members there.
While we're at it let's take it from former President Jimmy Carter. And Yasser Arafat. And the current President.
Hooray for UTAH!
Here is the story about how the Utah House of Representatives feel about "Global Warming."
4 Year Old Told to Remove His Leg Braces to Pass Through Airport Security
When I read this article I couldn't believe what I was reading.
Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday.
The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. In March he was just starting to walk.
Mid-morning on March 19, his parents wheeled his stroller to the TSA security point, a couple of hours before their Southwest Airlines flight was to depart.
The boy's father broke down the stroller and put it on the conveyor belt as Leona Thomas walked Ryan through the metal detector.
The alarm went off.
The screener told them to take off the boy's braces.
The Thomases were dumbfounded. "I told them he can't walk without them on his own," Bob Thomas said.
"He said, 'He'll need to take them off.' "
Ryan's mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic.
No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own.
I understand that the TSA worker was just doing his what he was told to do, but this should show that it is time to wake up and realize that while every Muslim may not be a terrorist, every terrorist lately has been a Muslim. Start profiling!
Ryan was taking his first flight, to Walt Disney World, for his fourth birthday.
The boy is developmentally delayed, one of the effects of being born 16 weeks prematurely. His ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. In March he was just starting to walk.
Mid-morning on March 19, his parents wheeled his stroller to the TSA security point, a couple of hours before their Southwest Airlines flight was to depart.
The boy's father broke down the stroller and put it on the conveyor belt as Leona Thomas walked Ryan through the metal detector.
The alarm went off.
The screener told them to take off the boy's braces.
The Thomases were dumbfounded. "I told them he can't walk without them on his own," Bob Thomas said.
"He said, 'He'll need to take them off.' "
Ryan's mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, which are custom-made of metal and hardened plastic.
No, the screener replied. The boy had to walk on his own.
I understand that the TSA worker was just doing his what he was told to do, but this should show that it is time to wake up and realize that while every Muslim may not be a terrorist, every terrorist lately has been a Muslim. Start profiling!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Obama Could Dump Biden for Clinton as VP in 2012
Democratic strategists say Obama doesn't need Biden for foreign policy issues anymore
Here is an interesting theory. I doubt this will ever happen but it is interesting to read nonetheless.
Democratic strategists say that if President Obama's re-election prospects look shaky, he could dump Vice President Joe Biden from the 2012 national ticket and choose Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate.
It's inside-Washington speculation at this point, but the strategists make a good case for such a shift. "Biden was named in the first place to shore up Obama on foreign policy issues, and Obama doesn't need that anymore," says a former Clinton adviser. That's because Obama has learned the ropes and has assembled a strong foreign policy and national security team including Robert Gates as defense secretary, Jim Jones as White House national security adviser, and Hillary Clinton as secretary of state.
Elevating Clinton to the vice presidential slot would accomplish several objectives: It would appeal to female voters and the still-powerful cadre of Clinton admirers, give Obama more of a pragmatic luster, and shunt the gaffe-prone Biden aside. And it would theoretically discourage Clinton, a former senator from New York, from challenging Obama in the 2012 primaries, Democratic insiders say, because as vice president she would be considered Obama's heir for 2016. Clinton would be 69 that year, the same age as Ronald Reagan when he won the presidency in 1980.
As for Clinton, she has said that she doesn't plan to serve as secretary of state longer than four years, but so far she has expressed no interest in another presidential run. She was the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 but lost to Obama after a long series of primaries and caucuses.A White House strategist attributed the speculation about Biden and Clinton to "cocktail party chatter" and said Obama is "very pleased" with Biden's job performance.
Here is an interesting theory. I doubt this will ever happen but it is interesting to read nonetheless.
Elevating Clinton to the vice presidential slot would accomplish several objectives: It would appeal to female voters and the still-powerful cadre of Clinton admirers, give Obama more of a pragmatic luster, and shunt the gaffe-prone Biden aside. And it would theoretically discourage Clinton, a former senator from New York, from challenging Obama in the 2012 primaries, Democratic insiders say, because as vice president she would be considered Obama's heir for 2016. Clinton would be 69 that year, the same age as Ronald Reagan when he won the presidency in 1980.
As for Clinton, she has said that she doesn't plan to serve as secretary of state longer than four years, but so far she has expressed no interest in another presidential run. She was the favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 but lost to Obama after a long series of primaries and caucuses.A White House strategist attributed the speculation about Biden and Clinton to "cocktail party chatter" and said Obama is "very pleased" with Biden's job performance.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Far Left Crank Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin
Here is a video of Andrea Mitchell mocking Sarah Palin for having a few bullet points on her hand while she gave a speech last week at a Tea Party...uh...party.
The Left are so eager to demonize Palin for every little thing she does that they can't see that they are doing the same exact thing they are accusing Palin of. This is frequently referred to as Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Doesn't her savior, Obama, use a teleprompter at every speaking occasion? Why isn't he getting made fun of or criticized? Also, Mitchell's day revolves around reading her lines off of a teleprompter.
The Left are so eager to demonize Palin for every little thing she does that they can't see that they are doing the same exact thing they are accusing Palin of. This is frequently referred to as Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Doesn't her savior, Obama, use a teleprompter at every speaking occasion? Why isn't he getting made fun of or criticized? Also, Mitchell's day revolves around reading her lines off of a teleprompter.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Wait, He's From Massachusetts. We Have to Use a 'D', Right?
From Campaignspot.
A reader sent in a photo of how their local news channel identified Scott Brown, the newest member of the Senate...and a Republican.
He is the first Republican to hold the seat in a few decades so it's been a while since an (R) was put after any Senator's name from MA.
What is really funny about this whole thing is that station (WCVB, Channel 5) is where Scott Brown's wife, Gail Huff, is a reporter. They could just have asked her in the newsroom
A reader sent in a photo of how their local news channel identified Scott Brown, the newest member of the Senate...and a Republican.
He is the first Republican to hold the seat in a few decades so it's been a while since an (R) was put after any Senator's name from MA.
What is really funny about this whole thing is that station (WCVB, Channel 5) is where Scott Brown's wife, Gail Huff, is a reporter. They could just have asked her in the newsroom
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Eric Holder 2002 Smarter than Eric Holder 2010
Attorney General Eric Holder this week penned a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. It said this:
"the decision to address Mr. Abdulmutallab's actions through our criminal justice system has not, and will not, compromise our ability to obtain information needed to detect and prevent future attacks."
"the decision to address Mr. Abdulmutallab's actions through our criminal justice system has not, and will not, compromise our ability to obtain information needed to detect and prevent future attacks."
It is apparent to anyone who is even somewhat informed on the topic that this is not true. When given a lawyer and read their Miranda Rights (thanks Warren Court) the suspect becomes a black hole of information. This is evident in the recent case of the Underwear Bomber. It is also evident in Eric Holder's own words.
In 2002 in an interview with CNN's Paula Zahn, Holder said this about getting John Walker Lindh to talk:
"Well, I mean, it's hard to interrogate him at this point now that he has a lawyer and now that he is here in the United States. But to the extent that we can get information from him, I think we should."
Lindh was the first American citizen captured while fighting in Afghanistan on the side of the Taliban against U.S. forces.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Avatargate?
James Cameron's latest film Avatar is a lot like an old British adult comic called Firekind. The story is of a boy who goes to a lush planet with a toxic atmosphere, floating rocks and dragons, going native with the blue skinned natives, resisting marauding colonialists and rallying the nature god of the planet to go forth and destroy.
I haven't seen the movie or read the comic but Cameron did already pay cash to sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison after Terminator was "influenced" by Ellison's Outer Limits episodes "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand." Harlan is also mentioned in the Terminator credits.
Here are some other comparisons:
I haven't seen the movie or read the comic but Cameron did already pay cash to sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison after Terminator was "influenced" by Ellison's Outer Limits episodes "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand." Harlan is also mentioned in the Terminator credits.
Here are some other comparisons:
| AVATAR: | FIREKIND: | |
| THE PLANET: | Pandora, a lush jungle world with mysterious floating rock formations and an atmosphere toxic to humans. | Gennyo-Leil, a lush jungle world with mysterious floating stone slabs and an atmosphere toxic to humans. |
| THE WILDLIFE: | Lots of weird stuff, plus big dragons for the natives to ride. | Lots of weird stuff, plus the firekind: big dragons for the natives to ride. |
| OUR PROTAGONIST: | Jake Sully, a washed up Marine who goes against his own species when they go too far. Has a lot of furry otherkin sex. | Hendrick Larsen, a washed up botanist who goes against his own species when they go too far. Has no sex. |
| THE NATIVES: | The Na'vi, blue-skinned aboriginals with a planet-wide neural net connection. | The Kesheen, blue-skinned Aboriginals with a planet-wide psychic connection. |
| RELIGION: | The Na'vi worship Eywa, an animistic nature deity who is summoned against the invaders with devastating results. | The Kesheen worship Asha-Kadarine, an animistic nature deity who is summoned against the invaders with devastating results. |
| THE INVADERS: | Marauding colonialists bent on exploiting Pandora's unique resources: "Unobtainium", a rare and desirable miracle compound available only in the planet's unique geology. | Marauding colonialists bent on exploiting Gennyo-Leil's unique resources: "Hexacrin", a rare and desirable miracle drug found only in the glands of the planet's mysterious dragons. |
| DOES IT HAVE WEIRD FLOATING ROCKS: | Yes. | Yes! |
Profiling
Senator Inhofe OK. (R) recently says we need to use a person's religion and ethnicity to screen at airports.
Every terrorist has a few things in common that would help us keep attacks to a minimum. Just about every attack on a commercial airliner since 1986 has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color and half of them have been named Mohammed.
When we travel by plane we have to submit to humiliating searches at security checkpoints. There we open bags, throw away breast milk, take off our shoes and even allow ourselves to be seen semi naked through a scanner.
I'm ok with most of this stuff if I knew it would deter terrorism but it has not.
We need to search those that fit the profile instead of harassing people who clearly aren't terrorists.
Every terrorist has a few things in common that would help us keep attacks to a minimum. Just about every attack on a commercial airliner since 1986 has been committed by foreign-born Muslim men with the same hair color, eye color and skin color and half of them have been named Mohammed.
When we travel by plane we have to submit to humiliating searches at security checkpoints. There we open bags, throw away breast milk, take off our shoes and even allow ourselves to be seen semi naked through a scanner.
I'm ok with most of this stuff if I knew it would deter terrorism but it has not.
We need to search those that fit the profile instead of harassing people who clearly aren't terrorists.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Obama Gets Called A Slow Learner
About a year ago Obama killed the Las Vegas economy when he told corporations not to hold company getaways and conventions there.
Well he has been in hot water again for trying to steer people away from the Entertainment City again.
This is what the Mayor of Las Vegas had to say about it.
Well he has been in hot water again for trying to steer people away from the Entertainment City again.
This is what the Mayor of Las Vegas had to say about it.
Mimi Gets Owned
This girl keeps popping up about every month on some of the shows I watch and she is pretty annoying.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Canadian Premier Comes to US for Surgery
Danny Williams going to U.S. for heart surgery
The CBC reports:
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States.
CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 60, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week.
The premier's office provided few details, beyond confirming that he would have heart surgery and saying that it was not necessarily a routine procedure.
Wouldn't he be better off staying in Canada and getting his surgery done there where the health care system is being used as a model for reform here in the US? I thought US health care was sub par. We have been hearing alot recently about how terrible it will be if you get sick here or need surgery, yet leaders of other nations always leave their country of socialized medicine to come to the US where they know they will get the best care in the world preformed by the best doctors in the world who went to the best schools in the world.
Michael Moore's Anti-Greed Film May Receive Michigan Tax Credit
The liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has been a critic of state tax credits for Hollywood films, but did one of his own films benefit from one of those credits in his home state of Michigan?
It seems so, according to a report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on issues in Michigan.
The state offers refundable tax credits of up to 42 percent to film productions for shooting movies and spending money in Michigan -- an incentive similar to one offered by numerous other states to entice Hollywood and bolster the local economy.
Moore's production has qualified to receive a tax credit from Michigan, the film office told the Mackinac Center, once the state Treasury Department reviews and approves the application. It wasn't immediately clear how much money the film qualified for.
Any amount of taxpayer subsidy is a potential black eye for Moore, who argued emphatically in "Capitalism: A Love Story" that Wall Street banks and other big companies didn't deserve the bailout money they received from the federal government as the economy was tanking.
"While we don't blame Mr. Moore and his production team for taking what is offered, it's striking that a movie focused on the inequities of granting taxpayer dollars to private enterprise would apply for and receive taxpayer-funded incentives," said Michael LaFaive, fiscal policy director at the Mackinac Center.
It seems so, according to a report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on issues in Michigan.
The state offers refundable tax credits of up to 42 percent to film productions for shooting movies and spending money in Michigan -- an incentive similar to one offered by numerous other states to entice Hollywood and bolster the local economy.
Moore's production has qualified to receive a tax credit from Michigan, the film office told the Mackinac Center, once the state Treasury Department reviews and approves the application. It wasn't immediately clear how much money the film qualified for.
Any amount of taxpayer subsidy is a potential black eye for Moore, who argued emphatically in "Capitalism: A Love Story" that Wall Street banks and other big companies didn't deserve the bailout money they received from the federal government as the economy was tanking.
"While we don't blame Mr. Moore and his production team for taking what is offered, it's striking that a movie focused on the inequities of granting taxpayer dollars to private enterprise would apply for and receive taxpayer-funded incentives," said Michael LaFaive, fiscal policy director at the Mackinac Center.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Obama Bows To... Tampa Mayor!?
Hey, what's that on the ground? Oh, it's just my dignity.
This guys has bowed to totalitarian dictators, but why Pam Iorio?
We may never know.
Some comments from the site.
Maybe he thinks she's a Communist dictator?
He just can't help himself.
maybe she is a he?
Maybe he knows that her I.Q. is way higher than his.
It's bad enough that he bows to everyone when he should bow to NO one.
But...he doesn't even do it right. Good Lord, he's a retard.
No wait...retards can be taught. I have no word for what he is.
But...he doesn't even do it right. Good Lord, he's a retard.
No wait...retards can be taught. I have no word for what he is.
gotta be a crack head!
Has anyone told him the POTUS doesn't bow to *anyone*??
Just what we needed in the office-- an insecure narissist sociopath. Sheesh.
Just what we needed in the office-- an insecure narissist sociopath. Sheesh.
all these orientals look alike to the post racial president. he thinks she is the empress of japan.
He is an embarrasment. Or perhaps she said that his his shoe laces were untied.
when he gets voted out of office and someone starts an investigation into the housing collapse and Freddy and Fannie and start arresting Democrats then Obama's ass will be in jail or on trial for treason and we can laugh at him.
I'm afraid there's something deeper. This guy is border line mentally ill.
This obsession he has with any criticism no matter how slight and this continual ridicule of the Office he holds.
Also, perhaps if he does this enough others will return the favor. Something is seriously wrong with his guy.
Who knows maybe it was near time for prayer so he just bowed. He's got to keep up appearances! LOL!
This obsession he has with any criticism no matter how slight and this continual ridicule of the Office he holds.
Also, perhaps if he does this enough others will return the favor. Something is seriously wrong with his guy.
Who knows maybe it was near time for prayer so he just bowed. He's got to keep up appearances! LOL!
She's wearing a skirt - probably confused her with an Arab prince.
What the fuck is this guys trip.
Check out the admiral taking it all in
LOL
LOL
This is soooooooooo un-fu**ing-believable!!!
I just can't believe this!
Are you SURE this isn't photo-shopped? I mean, C'mon! what the hell is wrong with this guy?!!
I just can't believe this!
Are you SURE this isn't photo-shopped? I mean, C'mon! what the hell is wrong with this guy?!!
She's Asian, he always bows to Asians!
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